QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE)

Set in JAMAICA, New York, QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) is an average-sized elementary school, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28. It teaches 590 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, which oversees 50 schools and 36,340 students, QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) is one campus in the system.

On demographics, QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 42% Asian, 11% Black, 3% Native American. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of +9.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Queens County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) is one campus in the mix.

MS 358 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 SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

QUEENS SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE (THE) operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 87%: 315 students in 2018 compared to 590 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 32% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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