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QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)
Located at 158-40 76TH RD, in FLUSHING, New York, QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) is a moderately sized high school that serves 593 students (grades 6 through 12), run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,704 students; QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) is among them.
On the student-mix side, QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 33% Asian, 17% White, 14% Black, 3% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) reports 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of +2.1 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Queens County shows 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 OF INQUIRY (THE) is one campus in the mix.
PS 255 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)'s enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 580 (now 593). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 24% to 33%.
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