QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY operates as a tight-knit 9-12 campus in FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. Current enrollment sits at 507 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 24% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY is one of 63 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, a district that hosts 39,209 students overall.

On the student-mix side, QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%; the rest breaks down as 34% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 40.7%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY has expanded 16%, going from 436 students in 2018 to 507 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 50% to 60% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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