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Alumni: what's one memory from TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
1,342
High
DISTRICT 851 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012204485
TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL
149-11 MELBOURNE AVE, FLUSHING, NY 11367 · (718) 575-5580 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,342 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 94% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
14.9:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
802 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 326 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 341 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 299 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 376 | 28% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
98.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
70.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 98 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 98.0% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 100.0% | 85.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+33.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% 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 33 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 →
Schools most like TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL
TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (86.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,342 | 59.8% | 86.0% |
| STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 1,425 | 56.5% | 100.0% |
| BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 772 | 56.7% | 99.6% |
| BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE) BRONX | 2,953 | 50.4% | 99.8% |
| QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL JAMAICA | 679 | 71.1% | 80.3% |
| THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL JAMAICA | 2,146 | 77.7% | 56.7% |
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 TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #115 of 1,135 | #5 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #260 of 1,109 ▼ 115 | #15 of 85 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 98.0% | #19 of 1,135 ▼ 9 | #3 of 89 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,342 | #131 of 1,216 | #16 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #979 of 1,058 | #70 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.3% | #226 of 1,070 | #42 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.8% | #596 of 1,167 | #88 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.3% | #83 of 339 | #13 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
1,342
+72 (+6%) vs 2020
+22% since 2010-11, when it was 1,098
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 1,342 | 90.3 | 14.9:1 | 60% (802) |
| 2023-24 | 1,333 | 91 | 14.7:1 | 61% (817) |
| 2022-23 | 1,322 | 90.5 | 14.6:1 | 60% (794) |
| 2020-21 | 1,270 | 71 | 17.9:1 | 54% (685) |
| 2017-18 | 1,144 | 56 | 20.4:1 | 55% (632) |
| 2015-16 | 1,132 | 53 | 21.4:1 | 55% (621) |
| 2010-11 | 1,098 | 50 | 22.0:1 | 41% (449) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL.
About TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL
In FLUSHING, New York, part of Queens County, TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL is a high school. A total of 1,342 students attend the school, which covers grades 9 through 12. The average for high schools in New York is about 668 students, so this school is 101% bigger than average.
TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL belongs to NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, a district of 46 schools and 33,704 students.
Asian students make up a majority at TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL, at 57%. Next come 16% Hispanic, 16% White, 6% Black, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 26% Asian among all Queens County residents. TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL's diversity index is 62%, against a US figure of 70%.
Staffing totals 90.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.9:1. On average, high schools in New York have 11.0:1, compared with 14.9:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL is 60%. That is 17 points below the 77% average for public schools in Queens County.
Measured against New York public high schools, TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
After accounting for student poverty, TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL is in the top 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 86.0% is 33.0 points above the 53.0% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
According to the American Community Survey, in Queens County, the median household income is $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL is one of 392 public schools in the county.
Nearby, PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER is about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 60.7% on proficiency, and TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL is above that at 86.0%.
TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment climbed 6% from its 2020-21 level of 1,270. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 17.9:1 to 14.9:1.
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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 #25
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
- PS 79 FRANCIS LEWISElementary · 1,088 students
Other schools in FLUSHING
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,778 students
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- JHS 185 EDWARD BLEEKERMiddle · 1,516 students
- JHS 216 GEORGE J RYANMiddle · 1,516 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 students
Nearby schools
- PS 219 PAUL KLAPPER0.2 mi · 596
- QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE)0.3 mi · 536
- JOHN BOWNE HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 2,778
- PS 165 EDITH K BERGTRAUM0.4 mi · 606
- PS 201 DISCOVERY SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND RESEARCH (THE)0.4 mi · 304
- PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS0.8 mi · 757
Frequently asked questions
About TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHow large is TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL?
TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,342 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL serve?
TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 14.9:1 (90 FTE teachers).
How diverse is TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL?
TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 16% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% Black, 57% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.