RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL

RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL is one of the big senior highs in RICHMOND HILL, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, with 1,841 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL sits 176% above that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 runs 63 schools in total, collectively educating 39,209 students. RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder looks like 29% Asian, 9% Black, 3% White, 3% Native American. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 135 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Queens County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.7%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of +7.8 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%. RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

The closest other public school is PS 51, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL has edged up 10%, going from 1,670 students in 2018 to 1,841 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 56% across the same window.

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