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WORLD JOURNALISM PREPARATORY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WORLD JOURNALISM PREPARATORY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL
As a moderately sized four-year high school in FLUSHING, New York, WORLD JOURNALISM PREPARATORY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL caters to 613 students from grades 6 through 12, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 33,704 students. WORLD JOURNALISM PREPARATORY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, WORLD JOURNALISM PREPARATORY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL shows that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 38% White, 15% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, WORLD JOURNALISM PREPARATORY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.2%; this one delivers 68.9%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate 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), WORLD JOURNALISM PREPARATORY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: IS 25 ADRIEN BLOCK, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WORLD JOURNALISM PREPARATORY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 71.0%.
Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 8%: 568 students in 2018 compared to 613 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 44% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.
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