QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is a substantial secondary school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24. The school educates 1,294 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL sits 94% larger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 comprises 57 schools with combined enrollment of 48,008 students; QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest looks like 7% Asian, 4% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of +13.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate median household income runs about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 1,544 (now 1,294). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 78% to 84%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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