QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 91-30 METROPOLITAN AVE, in FOREST HILLS, New York, QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL is a heavily attended senior high that teaches 1,068 students (grades 9 through 12), part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL sits 60% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 50 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 (36,340 students total), QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 10% Asian, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 63.8%, a residual of +13.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Queens County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL is one.

METROPOLITAN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING 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 METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 68.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 1,088 students in 2018 to 1,068 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 41% to 35%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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