QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY

QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY, a low-enrollment 9-12 campus in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, serves 320 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, which oversees 46 schools and 21,817 students, QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY lists that Black students make up the majority at 73%; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% Native American. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Queens County) logs that median household earnings sit near $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

Nearest neighbor: EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.7%.

QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. QUEENS PREPARATORY ACADEMY's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 404 (now 320). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 82% to 73%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.