VILLAGE ACADEMY

VILLAGE ACADEMY operates as a small middle school in FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27. Current enrollment sits at 305 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 43% below typical.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, which oversees 63 schools and 39,209 students, VILLAGE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, VILLAGE ACADEMY records that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 44% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.6:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at VILLAGE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Queens County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), VILLAGE ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.4%.

In the broader community, Queens County reports that 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), VILLAGE ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MS 53 BRIAN PICCOLO, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, VILLAGE ACADEMY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.

VILLAGE ACADEMY operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 357 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 56% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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