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What's the biggest difference between QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
679
High
DISTRICT 995 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010001414
QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL
160-20 GOETHALS AVE, JAMAICA, NY 11432 · (718) 969-3155 · Queens County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL679 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% of New York public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
483 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 93 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 9 | 116 | 17% |
| Grade 10 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 11 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 12 | 80 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
88.3%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
75.7%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.3% | 75.7% |
| 2023-24 | 86.5% | 73.4% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
80.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+31.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 31 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL
QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL's state test result (80.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL this school | 679 | 71.1% | 80.3% |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL-QUEENS JAMAICA | 544 | 81.4% | 46.1% |
| BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 772 | 56.7% | 99.6% |
| TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL FLUSHING | 1,342 | 59.8% | 86.0% |
| URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT BROOKLYN | 487 | 86.9% | 55.7% |
| JAMAICA GATEWAY TO THE SCIENCES JAMAICA | 531 | 83.6% | 59.0% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.3% | #178 of 1,135 | #9 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #193 of 1,109 ▲ 128 | #10 of 85 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.3% | #230 of 1,135 ▲ 112 | #10 of 89 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 679 | #368 of 1,216 | #35 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #991 of 1,058 | #72 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #208 of 1,070 | #39 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.1% | #519 of 1,167 | #79 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.6% | #702 of 743 | #44 of 48 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
679
-29 (-4%) vs 2020
+7% since 2010-11, when it was 632
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 16.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 679 | 45.1 | 15.1:1 | 71% (483) |
| 2023-24 | 686 | 50.3 | 13.6:1 | 64% (442) |
| 2022-23 | 671 | 48.2 | 13.9:1 | 63% (423) |
| 2020-21 | 708 | 43 | 16.5:1 | 60% (427) |
| 2017-18 | 690 | 37 | 18.6:1 | 63% (432) |
| 2015-16 | 726 | 37 | 19.6:1 | 64% (467) |
| 2010-11 | 632 | 27 | 23.4:1 | 71% (451) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL.
About QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL
QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL is a high school with a street address in JAMAICA, New York. In all, 679 students attend the school in grades 6 through 12.
QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL belongs to NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, a district of 50 schools and 36,340 students.
At QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL, 55% of students are Asian. Other students are 19% Black, 15% Hispanic, 6% Native American, and 2% White. That is higher than the 26% Asian share among all Queens County residents. A diversity index of 64% means there is a 64% chance two randomly chosen students at QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.1:1. The school has 45.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is 4.0 students per teacher. In all, 71% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 91% of New York public high schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL does better than predicted by 31.5 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 80.3%; the prediction is 48.8%.
In Queens County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL among them.
Of the public schools around it, QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL is closest to GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL II, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 4%, from 708 to 679. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 15.1:1, from 16.5:1.
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Queens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,323,052
Census ACS
Median income
$86,136
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
392
268,205 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Other schools in JAMAICA
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL IIElementary · 810 students
Nearby schools
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL II0.4 mi · 810
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 2,146
- QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)0.4 mi · 593
- PS 2550.4 mi · 552
- JAMAICA GATEWAY TO THE SCIENCES0.5 mi · 531
- QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL0.5 mi · 711
Frequently asked questions
About QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOLHow large is QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL?
QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 679 students in grades 06-12.
What age range does QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL serve?
QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 12.
How many teachers does QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL have?
QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL?
At QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 15% Hispanic, 19% Black, 55% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL?
QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.