ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY is a four-year high school of tiny scale in ROCKAWAY PARK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, educateing 232 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY is one of 63 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, a district that serves 39,209 students overall.

Looking at the student body, ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY logs that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 45% Hispanic, 4% White, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.9:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 41.7%; this one comes in at 19.2%, -22.5 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, Queens County reports that median household income runs about $86,136, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY's enrollment has contracted 25% since 2018, when it stood at 310 (now 232). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 34% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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