Enrollment
305
Middle
DISTRICT 684 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012306104
VILLAGE ACADEMY
10-45 NAMEOKE ST, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691 · (718) 471-6042 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL305 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 56% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
285 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 92 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 130 | 43% |
| Grade 8 | 79 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
47.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
64.4%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 64.4% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 57.6% |
% 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
48.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 VILLAGE ACADEMY
VILLAGE ACADEMY's state test result (48.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VILLAGE ACADEMY this school | 305 | 93.4% | 48.4% |
| BROWNSVILLE COLLABORATIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 271 | 95.2% | 62.0% |
| BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL BRONX | 298 | 93.0% | 36.1% |
| MS 53 BRIAN PICCOLO FAR ROCKAWAY | 235 | 94.0% | 32.8% |
| NORTH BRONX SCHOOL OF EMPOWERMENT BRONX | 318 | 93.1% | 30.7% |
| EAST LOWER SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 364 | 93.7% | 21.5% |
Matched among New York middle 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 VILLAGE ACADEMY ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.4% | #457 of 766 | #39 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #328 of 768 ▲ 52 | #24 of 57 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #386 of 768 ▲ 86 | #41 of 57 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 305 | #552 of 796 | #47 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #71 of 683 | #1 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.5% | #274 of 688 | #32 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.4% | #96 of 773 | #6 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.6% | #224 of 524 | #24 of 43 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
305
-63 (-17%) vs 2020
+86% since 2010-11, when it was 164
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 305 | 35.6 | 8.6:1 | 93% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 295 | 34.5 | 8.6:1 | 93% (274) |
| 2022-23 | 302 | 32 | 9.4:1 | 86% (261) |
| 2020-21 | 368 | 37 | 9.9:1 | 87% (319) |
| 2017-18 | 357 | 28 | 12.8:1 | 83% (297) |
| 2015-16 | 313 | 26 | 12.0:1 | 67% (211) |
| 2010-11 | 164 | 14 | 11.7:1 | 76% (125) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VILLAGE ACADEMY.
About VILLAGE ACADEMY
VILLAGE ACADEMY is a middle-grades school in FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, and it is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. Its enrollment is 305 students, spread over grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in New York enroll around 531, and this school is 43% below that mark.
VILLAGE ACADEMY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, where 63 schools serve 39,209 students.
The share of Black students at VILLAGE ACADEMY is 51%, a majority. The remaining students are 44% Hispanic. Census figures show Queens County is about 17% Black. A diversity index of 55% means there is a 55% chance two randomly chosen students at VILLAGE ACADEMY are from different groups.
Teacher count: 35.6 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 8.6:1. The average for middle schools in New York, 10.3:1, is higher. Roughly 93% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 77% for public schools in Queens County.
VILLAGE ACADEMY earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 56% of New York public middle schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, VILLAGE ACADEMY is 7.8 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 48.4% actual, 40.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Queens County show that the median household earns about $86,136 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Queens County has 392 public schools with about 268,205 students, including VILLAGE ACADEMY.
MS 53 BRIAN PICCOLO is less than a tenth of a mile from VILLAGE ACADEMY, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, VILLAGE ACADEMY ranks 4th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
VILLAGE ACADEMY falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 17% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 9.9:1 to 8.6:1.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About VILLAGE ACADEMYHow large is VILLAGE ACADEMY?
VILLAGE ACADEMY enrolls approximately 305 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does VILLAGE ACADEMY serve?
VILLAGE ACADEMY serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at VILLAGE ACADEMY?
Approximately 8.6:1 students per teacher at VILLAGE ACADEMY.
How diverse is VILLAGE ACADEMY?
VILLAGE ACADEMY reports a student body of 1% White, 44% Hispanic, 51% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is VILLAGE ACADEMY public or private?
VILLAGE ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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