Enrollment
148
Middle
DISTRICT 684 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012306127
WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP
190 BEACH 110TH ST, ROCKAWAY PARK, NY 11694 · (718) 634-1128 · Queens County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL148 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% 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.
- BBeats 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
9.7:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
122 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 | 37 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 61 | 41% |
Student demographics
59%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.8pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.1% | 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
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP
WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP this school | 148 | 82.4% | 47.9% |
| IS 340 BROOKLYN | 136 | 85.3% | 40.0% |
| MS 113 RONALD EDMONDS LEARNING CENTER BROOKLYN | 194 | 90.2% | 32.9% |
| MADIBA PREP MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 176 | 91.5% | 43.8% |
| MS 267 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BROOKLYN | 142 | 88.0% | 71.4% |
| CORNERSTONE ACADEMY FOR SOCIAL ACTION MIDDLE SCHOOL (CASA) BRONX | 165 | 92.7% | 38.0% |
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 WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #469 of 766 | #40 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #555 of 768 ▲ 72 | #42 of 57 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #277 of 768 ▲ 48 | #30 of 57 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 148 | #750 of 796 | #58 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.4% | #214 of 773 | #33 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.1% | #61 of 524 | #5 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
148
-49 (-25%) vs 2020
+11% since 2010-11, when it was 133
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 9.4:1
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 | 148 | 15.3 | 9.7:1 | 82% (122) |
| 2023-24 | 167 | 16.1 | 10.4:1 | 81% (136) |
| 2022-23 | 167 | 21.1 | 7.9:1 | 79% (132) |
| 2020-21 | 197 | 21 | 9.4:1 | 89% (175) |
| 2017-18 | 228 | 20 | 11.4:1 | 90% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 223 | 20 | 11.2:1 | 87% (195) |
| 2010-11 | 133 | 11 | 12.1:1 | 89% (119) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP.
About WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP
WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP is a very small middle school in New York, located in ROCKAWAY PARK. It reports enrollment of 148 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 72% below the 531-student average for middle schools in New York.
WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP is in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, a district with 39,209 students across 63 schools.
More than half of the students at WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP are Black (51%). Beyond that, enrollment is 39% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. In Queens County overall, about 17% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP scores 59%.
Classroom staffing at WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP totals 15.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 9.7:1. The average ratio among middle schools in New York is similar, at 10.3:1. Federal data show 82% of students (122) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 50% of New York public middle schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP would score about 44.7%. It scores 47.9%, 3.2 points above that figure.
In the wider Queens County area, median household income comes to about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Queens County counts 392 public schools with about 268,205 students.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL, is the closest to WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP. On proficiency, WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP is behind the 48.2% nearby average, ranking 4th of 9.
Under the NCES locale system, WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP is City: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 148, from 197 in 2020-21.
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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 #27
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
Other schools in ROCKAWAY PARK
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
- PS/MS 114 BELLE HARBORElementary · 638 students
- WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- ROCKAWAY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 287 students
- ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITYHigh · 232 students
Nearby schools
- WATERSIDE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL0.1 mi · 432
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMY0.4 mi · 1,184
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCH0.6 mi · 1,180
- ROCKAWAY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 287
- ROCKAWAY PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY0.6 mi · 232
- UNITED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE HUMANITIES IV0.6 mi · 189
Frequently asked questions
About WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIPWhat is the total enrollment at WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP?
WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP enrolls approximately 148 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP serve?
WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP is approximately 9.7:1 (15 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP?
Student demographics at WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP are roughly 5% White, 39% Hispanic, 51% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP in?
WATERSIDE SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27.
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