QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL

QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL is a cozy 6-8 campus in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29. The school serves 239 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 55% below that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 3% Native American. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

PS 156 LAURELTON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 16%: 206 students in 2018 compared to 239 in 2025.

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