WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL, a heavily attended secondary school in LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30, enrolls 1,996 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 199% larger than typical.

Across the 53 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 (35,337 students total), WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 18% Asian, 9% White, 6% Black. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL has 160 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Queens County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 43.7%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Queens County put the typical household earns roughly $86,136 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 151 MARY D CARTER, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 2,378 students in 2018 compared to 1,996 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 50% to 65%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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