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Enrollment
626
High
DISTRICT 803 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24·NCES 360009801791
ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
47-07 30TH PL, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101 · (718) 472-5671 · Queens County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL626 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of New York public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
14.0:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
511 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 62 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 51 | 8% |
| Grade 9 | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 10 | 119 | 19% |
| Grade 11 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 12 | 114 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
81.6%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.4pp since 2023
Math
34.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -32.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 32 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.6% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 66.1% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
66.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
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ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY's state test result (66.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY this school | 626 | 81.6% | 66.8% |
| VERITAS ACADEMY FLUSHING | 653 | 83.3% | 49.0% |
| ENERGY TECH HIGH SCHOOL LONG ISLAND CITY | 487 | 80.1% | 48.8% |
| INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL LONG ISLAND CITY | 779 | 86.9% | 51.8% |
| MASPETH HIGH SCHOOL ELMHURST | 1,001 | 80.2% | 58.8% |
| MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE LONG ISLAND CITY | 440 | 78.9% | 92.5% |
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 ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #402 of 1,135 | #19 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #820 of 1,109 ▼ 405 | #61 of 85 ▼ 41 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.6% | #392 of 1,135 ▲ 31 | #20 of 89 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 626 | #415 of 1,216 | #39 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #928 of 1,058 | #56 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.7% | #432 of 1,070 | #57 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.6% | #419 of 1,167 | #45 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #566 of 743 | #31 of 48 |
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
626
-19 (-3%) vs 2020
+11% since 2010-11, when it was 564
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 626 | 44.8 | 14.0:1 | 82% (511) |
| 2023-24 | 626 | 43.3 | 14.5:1 | 79% (497) |
| 2022-23 | 611 | 43.8 | 13.9:1 | 79% (482) |
| 2020-21 | 645 | 40 | 16.1:1 | 75% (484) |
| 2017-18 | 666 | 38 | 17.5:1 | 78% (517) |
| 2015-16 | 624 | 33 | 18.9:1 | 80% (499) |
| 2010-11 | 564 | 31 | 18.2:1 | 69% (391) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY.
About ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
This page covers ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY, a mid-sized high school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York. It had 626 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 12.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24, which runs ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY, has 57 schools and 48,008 students.
More than half of enrollment at ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is Hispanic: 66%. Other groups include 15% Asian, 12% White, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 28% Hispanic. The diversity index for ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is 53%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY totals 44.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.0:1. The average for high schools in New York is 11.0:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is about 82%.
ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 75% of New York public high schools.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is among the top 10% of schools in New York. Predicted: 45.0%. Actual: 66.8%.
In Queens County, the median household earns about $86,136 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Queens County has 392 public schools with about 268,205 students, including ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY.
Of the public schools around it, ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is closest to ACADEMY OF FINANCE AND ENTERPRISE, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is 5th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Locale data from NCES put ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
A 3% decrease took enrollment from 645 in 2020-21 to 626 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 16.1:1 to 14.0:1.
The ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Queens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,323,052
Census ACS
Median income
$86,136
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
392
268,205 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24
- IS 61 LEONARDO DA VINCIMiddle · 2,131 students
- NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- IS 73 FRANK SANSIVIERI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (THE)Middle · 1,581 students
- PS 19 MARINO JEANTETElementary · 1,506 students
Other schools in LONG ISLAND CITY
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,996 students
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,639 students
- QUEENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,294 students
- ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIESHigh · 1,206 students
- ATLASHigh · 1,162 students
Nearby schools
- ACADEMY OF FINANCE AND ENTERPRISE0.2 mi · 874
- HIGH SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATIONS0.2 mi · 380
- BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS0.2 mi · 643
- INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE0.2 mi · 455
- MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE0.2 mi · 440
- AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,924
Frequently asked questions
About ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGYHow many students attend ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY?
ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY enrolls approximately 626 students in grades 06-12.
Is ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY an elementary, middle, or high school?
ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many teachers does ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY have?
ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
How diverse is ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY?
ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY reports a student body of 12% White, 66% Hispanic, 3% Black, 15% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY?
ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.