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What's the one class at QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE every student should take?
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Enrollment
495
High
DISTRICT 995 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010005297
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE
94-50 159TH ST, JAMAICA, NY 11433 · (718) 657-3181 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL495 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% 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
18.0:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
330 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 9 | 131 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 108 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 127 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 129 | 26% |
Student demographics
39%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
100.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
96.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 100 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 100.0% | 96.0% |
| 2023-24 | 100.0% | 93.0% |
% 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
98.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+47.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 98% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% 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 48 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 HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE's state test result (98.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE this school | 495 | 66.7% | 98.2% |
| EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FLUSHING | 700 | 85.4% | 76.0% |
| QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES FLUSHING | 441 | 83.4% | 69.7% |
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR DUAL LANGUAGE AND ASIAN STUDIES NEW YORK | 368 | 78.3% | 92.0% |
| STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 1,425 | 56.5% | 100.0% |
| QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL JAMAICA | 679 | 71.1% | 80.3% |
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 HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 98.2% | #11 of 1,135 | #1 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 96.0% | #15 of 1,109 ▲ 47 | #1 of 85 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 100% | #6 of 1,135 ▲ 2 | #1 of 89 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 495 | #548 of 1,216 | #61 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #1,042 of 1,058 | #84 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.6% | #699 of 1,070 | #76 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #554 of 1,167 | #85 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.4% | #227 of 339 | #28 of 39 |
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
495
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
+21% since 2010-11, when it was 408
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 19.7:1
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 | 495 | 27.5 | 18.0:1 | 67% (330) |
| 2023-24 | 498 | 28.6 | 17.4:1 | 66% (328) |
| 2022-23 | 520 | 29.9 | 17.4:1 | 65% (340) |
| 2020-21 | 512 | 26 | 19.7:1 | 62% (315) |
| 2017-18 | 474 | 24.8 | 19.1:1 | 63% (300) |
| 2015-16 | 434 | 24 | 18.1:1 | 65% (283) |
| 2010-11 | 408 | 24 | 17.0:1 | 61% (247) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE.
About QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE, a low-enrollment high school, is located in JAMAICA, New York. School enrollment was 495 students in 2024-25, in grades 9 through 12. The average among high schools in New York is roughly 668 students; this school is 26% smaller than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 is made up of 50 schools with 36,340 students in all.
A majority of students at QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE, 78%, are Asian. The next largest groups are 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% White, and 2% multiracial. The school's Asian share is 52 points above the 26% share among Queens County residents. QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE has a diversity index of 39%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Staffing totals 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.0:1. That ratio is over the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE is 67%. Among public schools in Queens County, the average eligibility rate is 77%.
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 99% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 50.5% for QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 98.2%. The 47.7-point gap ranks in the top 10% of New York schools.
In Queens County (population about 2,323,052), median household income is about $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. A total of 392 public schools operate in Queens County, serving about 268,205 students.
Of nearby public schools, NEW DAWN CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL II is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE ranks 1st on proficiency.
The NCES locale for QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 512 to 495. Federal data show the ratio falling from 19.7:1 to 18.0:1.
The discussion area below is open to posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
- NEW DAWN CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL II0.3 mi · 375
- PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITH0.5 mi · 810
- DAVID N DINKINS SCHOOL0.5 mi · 446
- QUEENS SATELLITE HIGH SCHOOL FOR OPPORTUNITY0.5 mi · 187
- MS 3580.5 mi · 345
- QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)0.5 mi · 590
Frequently asked questions
About QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGEHow large is QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE?
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE enrolls approximately 495 students in grades 09-12.
Is QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE an elementary, middle, or high school?
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE have?
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.0:1.
How diverse is QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE?
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE reports a student body of 4% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 78% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE?
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE 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.