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Enrollment
653
High
DISTRICT 851 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25·NCES 360012206434
VERITAS ACADEMY
35-01 UNION ST, FLUSHING, NY 11354 · (718) 888-7530 · Queens County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL653 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
15.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
544 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 | 171 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 178 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 153 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 149 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
48%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
73.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -9.0pp since 2023
Math
26.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 82.0% | 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
49.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 VERITAS ACADEMY
VERITAS ACADEMY's state test result (49.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERITAS ACADEMY this school | 653 | 83.3% | 49.0% |
| ROBERT F WAGNER JR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY LONG ISLAND CITY | 626 | 81.6% | 66.8% |
| ENERGY TECH HIGH SCHOOL LONG ISLAND CITY | 487 | 80.1% | 48.8% |
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND BUSINESS CORONA | 721 | 87.4% | 63.3% |
| INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL LONG ISLAND CITY | 779 | 86.9% | 51.8% |
| UNION SQUARE ACADEMY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES NEW YORK | 527 | 86.9% | 53.2% |
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 VERITAS ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #751 of 1,135 | #57 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #942 of 1,109 ▼ 176 | #77 of 85 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #529 of 1,135 ▼ 89 | #39 of 89 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 653 | #389 of 1,216 | #36 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #998 of 1,058 | #75 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.1% | #540 of 1,070 | #62 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.3% | #381 of 1,167 | #36 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.3% | #77 of 339 | #12 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
653
+41 (+7%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 653 | 43 | 15.2:1 | 83% (544) |
| 2023-24 | 602 | 47.1 | 12.8:1 | 81% (488) |
| 2022-23 | 630 | 43.8 | 14.4:1 | 83% (526) |
| 2020-21 | 612 | 47 | 13.0:1 | 83% (509) |
| 2017-18 | 552 | 36 | 15.3:1 | 75% (416) |
| 2015-16 | 410 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 74% (303) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VERITAS ACADEMY.
About VERITAS ACADEMY
The public high school VERITAS ACADEMY is located in FLUSHING, New York. The school's 653 students are in grades 9 through 12.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 oversees VERITAS ACADEMY and 45 other schools, with 33,704 students in total.
VERITAS ACADEMY's enrollment is 70% Hispanic. Other groups make up 14% Asian, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, and 4% White. County-wide, 28% of Queens County residents are Hispanic. By the diversity index, VERITAS ACADEMY comes in at 48%.
Dividing enrollment by its 43 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 15.2:1. Among high schools in New York, the typical ratio is 11.0:1. Eligible students account for 83% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program.
allk12 grades VERITAS ACADEMY a C+. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, VERITAS ACADEMY is 4.6 points above its prediction. Actual: 49.0%. Predicted: 44.4%.
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 closest public school, QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES, is less than a tenth of a mile from VERITAS ACADEMY. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. VERITAS ACADEMY is 8th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 612 in 2020-21 and 653 in 2024-25, a 7% rise. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.2:1.
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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
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
- PS 24 ANDREW JACKSONElementary · 1,197 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
- TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- IS 237Middle · 1,313 students
Nearby schools
- QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES0.0 mi · 441
- FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 1,650
- QUEENS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 351
- PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN0.4 mi · 331
- PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL0.4 mi · 303
- PS 20 JOHN BOWNE0.5 mi · 995
Frequently asked questions
About VERITAS ACADEMYHow large is VERITAS ACADEMY?
VERITAS ACADEMY enrolls approximately 653 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does VERITAS ACADEMY serve?
VERITAS ACADEMY serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at VERITAS ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at VERITAS ACADEMY is approximately 15.2:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at VERITAS ACADEMY?
Student demographics at VERITAS ACADEMY are roughly 4% White, 70% Hispanic, 6% Black, 14% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is VERITAS ACADEMY public or private?
VERITAS ACADEMY 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.