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Enrollment
840
High
DISTRICT 2,169 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26·NCES 360009905536
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
74-20 COMMONWEALTH BLVD, BELLEROSE, NY 11426 · (718) 736-7100 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL840 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of New York public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
11.5:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
563 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 213 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 193 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 220 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 211 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
24.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES's state test result (43.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES this school | 840 | 67.0% | 43.2% |
| BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL QUEENS VILLAGE | 601 | 73.2% | 52.5% |
| YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY JAMAICA | 596 | 75.7% | 56.3% |
| CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL CHEEKTOWAGA | 682 | 66.1% | 53.3% |
| FREDERICK OLMSTED #156 BUFFALO | 928 | 61.4% | 59.2% |
| MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL QUEENS VILLAGE | 1,131 | 76.1% | 53.2% |
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 OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #880 of 1,135 | #73 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #967 of 1,109 ▼ 173 | #79 of 85 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #804 of 1,135 ▼ 101 | #71 of 89 ▼ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 840 | #306 of 1,216 | #28 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #630 of 1,058 | #21 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.7% | #76 of 1,070 | #14 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.0% | #551 of 1,167 | #83 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.3% | #160 of 743 | #11 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
840
-127 (-13%) vs 2020
-30% since 2010-11, when it was 1,198
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 840 | 72.8 | 11.5:1 | 67% (563) |
| 2023-24 | 831 | 77.9 | 10.7:1 | 62% (512) |
| 2022-23 | 868 | 76.1 | 11.4:1 | 64% (557) |
| 2020-21 | 967 | 64 | 15.1:1 | 62% (598) |
| 2017-18 | 1,067 | 60 | 17.8:1 | 55% (584) |
| 2015-16 | 1,124 | 57 | 19.7:1 | 58% (656) |
| 2010-11 | 1,198 | 60 | 20.0:1 | 50% (595) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES.
About QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES serves students in BELLEROSE, New York, as a mid-sized high school. The school enrolls 840 students in grades 9 through 12. On average, high schools in New York enroll around 668, and this school is 26% larger than that mark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26, which runs QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, has 34 schools and 29,203 students.
The biggest share of students at QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, 43%, is Black. The next largest groups are 24% Hispanic, 21% Asian, 5% White, and 4% Native American. In Queens County overall, about 17% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES scores 71%.
A staff of 72.8 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 11.5:1. That is in line with the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. By family income, 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 10 points below the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 17% of New York public high schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES is 50.3%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 43.2%.
The county, Queens County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 392, with about 268,205 students.
Among nearby public schools, PS/IS 208 is closest at less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES is 5th among 5 schools close by.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
The school's student count fell 13% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Students per teacher dropped from 15.1 in 2020-21 to 11.5 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 #26
- FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,573 students
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,004 students
- BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,866 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,131 students
- JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMiddle · 1,104 students
Other schools in BELLEROSE
- PS/IS 208Elementary · 605 students
- PS 133 THE BELLEROSE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCEElementary · 596 students
- PS/IS 266Elementary · 465 students
- PS 224Elementary · 414 students
- PS 23 AT QUEENS CHILDREN CENTERCombined · 389 students
- PS 186 CASTLEWOODElementary · 319 students
Nearby schools
- PS/IS 2080.1 mi · 605
- PS/IS 2660.1 mi · 465
- NEW YORK CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER0.2 mi · 40
- PS 23 AT QUEENS CHILDREN CENTER0.2 mi · 389
- PS 186 CASTLEWOOD0.5 mi · 319
- PS 2240.5 mi · 414
Frequently asked questions
About QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCESHow many students attend QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES?
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES enrolls approximately 840 students in grades 09-12.
Is QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES an elementary, middle, or high school?
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES?
Approximately 11.5:1 students per teacher at QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES.
What is the student diversity at QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES?
Student demographics at QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES are roughly 5% White, 24% Hispanic, 43% Black, 21% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES in?
QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26.
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