ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL

Set in FLUSHING, New York, ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25. It works with 587 students across grades 9 through 12.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 33,704 students. ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 25% Asian, 19% Black, 10% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Queens County) reports that 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), ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

IS 250 ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.2%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 23% since 2018, when it stood at 759 (now 587). Asian enrollment moved from 36% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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