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Enrollment
390
High
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2·NCES 360007706125
QUEST TO LEARN
351 W 18TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10011 · (212) 488-3645 · New York County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
9.8:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
298 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 32 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 89 | 23% |
| Grade 9 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 10 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 11 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 12 | 59 | 15% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
38.3%
NY avg 58.3% . -20.7pp since 2023
Math
29.9%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 21 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.3% | 29.9% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 33.5% |
% 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
35.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 QUEST TO LEARN
QUEST TO LEARN's state test result (35.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUEST TO LEARN this school | 390 | 76.4% | 35.9% |
| HARVEST COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 365 | 72.6% | 80.0% |
| GRAMERCY ARTS HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 420 | 73.3% | 70.2% |
| URBAN ASSEMBLY GATEWAY SCHOOL FOR TECHNOLOGY NEW YORK | 407 | 70.8% | 57.8% |
| URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY NEW YORK | 535 | 73.5% | 56.5% |
| HIGH SCHOOL 560 CITY-AS-SCHOOL NEW YORK | 478 | 78.5% | 72.5% |
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 QUEST TO LEARN ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.9% | #1,002 of 1,135 | #110 of 125 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #888 of 1,109 ▼ 49 | #73 of 112 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #1,081 of 1,135 ▼ 243 | #120 of 125 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #736 of 1,216 | #68 of 135 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #263 of 1,058 | #28 of 111 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #168 of 1,070 | #31 of 113 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.4% | #479 of 1,167 | #97 of 133 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.6% | #78 of 743 | #17 of 79 |
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
390
-211 (-35%) vs 2020
+193% since 2010-11, when it was 133
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 390 | 39.9 | 9.8:1 | 76% (298) |
| 2023-24 | 439 | 43.9 | 10.0:1 | 73% (320) |
| 2022-23 | 489 | 51 | 9.6:1 | 65% (319) |
| 2020-21 | 601 | 44 | 13.7:1 | 71% (424) |
| 2017-18 | 579 | 47 | 12.3:1 | 67% (390) |
| 2015-16 | 664 | 49 | 13.6:1 | 45% (302) |
| 2010-11 | 133 | 11 | 12.1:1 | 47% (62) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for QUEST TO LEARN.
About QUEST TO LEARN
Among the schools in NEW YORK, New York, is QUEST TO LEARN, a low-enrollment high school. The school enrolls 390 students, from grades 6 through 12. An average school in this group (high schools in New York) has about 668 students.
The district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, operates 119 schools serving 54,599 students.
Roughly 52% of students at QUEST TO LEARN are Hispanic. Other groups make up 22% Black, 15% White, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. County-wide, 24% of New York County residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
QUEST TO LEARN's 39.9 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 9.8:1. On average, high schools in New York have 11.0:1, compared with 9.8:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 76%.
QUEST TO LEARN is graded D by allk12, scoring above 9% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In New York, QUEST TO LEARN is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 35.9% actual against a predicted 46.9%.
QUEST TO LEARN is located in New York County, where the median household income is $103,931, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Besides QUEST TO LEARN, New York County has 357 other public schools.
The closest public school, LANDMARK HIGH SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile from QUEST TO LEARN. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, QUEST TO LEARN is 9th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
QUEST TO LEARN is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
QUEST TO LEARN's enrollment declined from 601 in 2020-21 to 390 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 13.7 in 2020-21 to 9.8 in 2024-25.
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New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
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Nearby schools
- LANDMARK HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 289
- HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES0.0 mi · 189
- MANHATTAN BUSINESS ACADEMY0.0 mi · 441
- JAMES BALDWIN SCHOOL-A SCHOOL FOR EXPEDITIONARY LRNING0.0 mi · 138
- HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.0 mi · 261
- NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES0.1 mi · 413
Frequently asked questions
About QUEST TO LEARNHow large is QUEST TO LEARN?
QUEST TO LEARN enrolls approximately 390 students in grades 06-12.
What age range does QUEST TO LEARN serve?
QUEST TO LEARN serves students from grade 06 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at QUEST TO LEARN?
The student-to-teacher ratio at QUEST TO LEARN is approximately 9.8:1 (40 FTE teachers).
How diverse is QUEST TO LEARN?
QUEST TO LEARN reports a student body of 15% White, 52% Hispanic, 22% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is QUEST TO LEARN in?
QUEST TO LEARN is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.