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Enrollment
2,146
High
DISTRICT 995 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010002881
THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL
165-65 84TH AVE, JAMAICA, NY 11432 · (718) 297-6580 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE ICAREER AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL2,146 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of New York public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
15.4:1
139 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
1,668 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 9 | 501 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 582 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 557 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 478 | 22% |
| Ungraded | 28 | 1% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
84.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
46.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.0% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
56.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL
THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (56.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL this school | 2,146 | 77.7% | 56.7% |
| BENJAMIN N CARDOZO HIGH SCHOOL BAYSIDE | 2,866 | 72.1% | 54.8% |
| BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL BAYSIDE | 3,004 | 77.0% | 62.8% |
| MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 3,657 | 76.9% | 64.8% |
| NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 3,236 | 82.5% | 54.0% |
| FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 3,403 | 85.0% | 48.0% |
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 THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.7% | #607 of 1,135 | #37 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #650 of 1,109 ▲ 111 | #41 of 85 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #339 of 1,135 ▲ 84 | #17 of 89 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,146 | #42 of 1,216 | #8 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #1,013 of 1,058 | #80 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #105 of 1,070 | #22 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.7% | #469 of 1,167 | #59 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #332 of 339 | #39 of 39 |
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
2,146
-193 (-8%) vs 2020
-9% since 2010-11, when it was 2,361
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 2,146 | 139 | 15.4:1 | 78% (1,668) |
| 2023-24 | 2,197 | 130.9 | 16.8:1 | 75% (1,656) |
| 2022-23 | 2,215 | 130.9 | 16.9:1 | 75% (1,662) |
| 2020-21 | 2,339 | 133 | 17.6:1 | 81% (1,883) |
| 2017-18 | 2,138 | 109.8 | 19.5:1 | 81% (1,729) |
| 2015-16 | 2,141 | 104 | 20.6:1 | 77% (1,645) |
| 2010-11 | 2,361 | 119 | 19.8:1 | 64% (1,510) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL.
About THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL
THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is classified as a high school. It is located in JAMAICA, New York. The school's 2,146 students are in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 221% higher than the average for high schools in New York, which is about 668.
The district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28, has 36,340 students enrolled across 50 schools.
THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and Asian students are the largest at 46%. Other students are 26% Hispanic, 17% Black, 5% Native American, and 3% White. By comparison, Queens County residents are about 26% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.
Dividing enrollment by its 139 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 15.4:1. The average ratio among high schools in New York is 11.0:1, lower than at this school. THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL reports 78% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is close to the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
The allk12 Grade for THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is B-. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 54% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is 10.3 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Census estimates describe Queens County this way: median household income is about $86,136, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 392 public schools in Queens County, with a combined enrollment of about 268,205.
The shortest distance from THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to HIGH SCHOOL FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP. The five-mile area around THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
The student count in 2024-25 was 2,146, 8% below the 2,339 of 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 15.4 students per teacher, compared with 17.6 in 2020-21.
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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 #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- JHS 190 RUSSELL SAGEMiddle · 935 students
Other schools in JAMAICA
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL IIElementary · 810 students
- PS 182 SAMANTHA SMITHElementary · 810 students
Nearby schools
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP0.1 mi · 497
- JAMAICA GATEWAY TO THE SCIENCES0.1 mi · 531
- HILLSIDE ARTS & LETTERS ACADEMY0.1 mi · 414
- QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL0.1 mi · 711
- PS 131 ABIGAIL ADAMS0.3 mi · 754
- QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 679
Frequently asked questions
About THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL?
THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,146 students in grades 09-12.
Is THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.4:1 students per teacher at THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL?
THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 3% White, 26% Hispanic, 17% Black, 46% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL in?
THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28.
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