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Enrollment
593
High
DISTRICT 851 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012205830
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)
158-40 76TH RD, FLUSHING, NY 11366 · (718) 380-6929 · Queens County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL593 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% 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
12.7:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
391 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 6 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 10 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 87 | 15% |
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
61.5%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
60.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.5% | 60.1% |
| 2023-24 | 56.7% | 53.7% |
% 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
52.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)'s state test result (52.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) this school | 593 | 65.9% | 52.9% |
| BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS LONG ISLAND CITY | 643 | 64.7% | 80.7% |
| BARUCH COLLEGE CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 479 | 66.0% | 88.4% |
| CSI HIGH SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES STATEN ISLAND | 519 | 66.3% | 85.0% |
| UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 474 | 75.9% | 64.2% |
| MANHATTAN/HUNTER SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 447 | 73.8% | 88.0% |
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 SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #687 of 1,135 | #48 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #414 of 1,109 ▲ 167 | #25 of 85 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.5% | #762 of 1,135 ▲ 117 | #67 of 89 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 593 | #444 of 1,216 | #46 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #800 of 1,058 | #37 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.7% | #29 of 1,070 | #5 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.9% | #562 of 1,167 | #86 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.2% | #283 of 339 | #35 of 39 |
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
593
-16 (-3%) vs 2020
+20% since 2010-11, when it was 493
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 593 | 46.6 | 12.7:1 | 66% (391) |
| 2023-24 | 589 | 49.2 | 12.0:1 | 65% (381) |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 46.7 | 12.4:1 | 62% (358) |
| 2020-21 | 609 | 49 | 12.4:1 | 65% (398) |
| 2017-18 | 580 | 47 | 12.3:1 | 60% (349) |
| 2015-16 | 552 | 41 | 13.5:1 | 59% (325) |
| 2010-11 | 493 | 30 | 16.4:1 | 74% (366) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE).
About QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) is a medium-sized high school. Its address is in FLUSHING, New York. The school's 593 students are in grades 6 through 12.
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) is a school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. The district has 46 schools and 33,704 students.
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 33%. Other students are 33% Asian, 17% White, 14% Black, and 3% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 74%, meaning two students picked at random have a 74% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) counts 46.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 12.7 students for each one. On average, high schools in New York have 11.0:1, compared with 12.7:1 here. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is 77%.
Measured against New York public high schools, QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) is 2.1 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 52.9% actual, 50.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
County data help place the school in context: in Queens County, the median household income is $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Queens County is home to 392 public schools and about 268,205 public school students.
Nearby, PS 255 is less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE), there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) is 5th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)'s enrollment dropped from 609 in 2020-21 to 593 in 2024-25.
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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 #25
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
Other schools in FLUSHING
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
Nearby schools
- PS 2550.0 mi · 552
- IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)0.1 mi · 254
- ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 587
- PS 1540.2 mi · 542
- QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 679
- PS/MS 200 MAGNET SCHOOL-GLOBAL STUDI0.5 mi · 489
Frequently asked questions
About QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)How large is QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)?
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) enrolls approximately 593 students in grades 06-12.
What age range does QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) serve?
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) serves students from grade 06 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) is approximately 12.7:1 (47 FTE teachers).
How diverse is QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)?
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) reports a student body of 17% White, 33% Hispanic, 14% Black, 33% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)?
QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE) is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.