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WORLD JOURNALISM PREPARATORY: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)BeatsExpectations
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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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