VERITAS ACADEMY

VERITAS ACADEMY, a mid-tier 9-12 campus in FLUSHING, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, works with 653 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25, which oversees 46 schools and 33,704 students, VERITAS ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

Demographically, VERITAS ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Asian, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, VERITAS ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Queens County shows median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), VERITAS ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VERITAS ACADEMY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 59.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 18%: 552 students in 2018 compared to 653 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 58% to 70%.

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