REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL

REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a cozy middle-grades school in JAMAICA, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28. The school hosts 270 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 49% below that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 36,340 students. REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 27% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 5% Native American, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.9%.

Zooming out to the county, 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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Queens County runs 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), of which REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CATHERINE & COUNT BASIE MIDDLE SCHOOL 72, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 45.1%.

REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 313 students in 2018 compared to 270 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 10% to 27%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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