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ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL
ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL operates as an average-sized primary school in JAMAICA, New York, run under ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL. Current enrollment sits at 433 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.
ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On the student-mix side, ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL lists that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.0%; this one delivers 54.8%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).
The closest other public school is JERMAINE L GREEN STEM INSTITUTE OF QUEENS (THE), roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 47.2%.
The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Looking at the recent track record. ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 53% since 2018, when it stood at 283 (now 433). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 3% to 7%.
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