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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY this year?
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Enrollment
596
High
DISTRICT 995 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28·NCES 360010005935
YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY
108-35 167TH ST, JAMAICA, NY 11433 · (718) 262-8547 · Queens County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL596 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New York public high schools
- B-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
451 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 9 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 10 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 12 | 75 | 13% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
67.2%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.1pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.2% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.1% | 51.4% |
% 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
56.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY
YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY's state test result (56.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY this school | 596 | 75.7% | 56.3% |
| BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL QUEENS VILLAGE | 601 | 73.2% | 52.5% |
| QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES BELLEROSE | 840 | 67.0% | 43.2% |
| MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL QUEENS VILLAGE | 1,131 | 76.1% | 53.2% |
| LEONARDO DA VINCI HIGH SCHOOL BUFFALO | 363 | 81.3% | 57.7% |
| HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL BUFFALO | 1,140 | 83.1% | 63.5% |
Matched among New York high 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 YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #616 of 1,135 | #38 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #642 of 1,109 ▼ 24 | #40 of 85 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.2% | #628 of 1,135 ▲ 61 | #48 of 89 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 596 | #443 of 1,216 | #45 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #1,049 of 1,058 | #86 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #109 of 1,070 | #24 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.7% | #489 of 1,167 | #68 of 92 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #541 of 743 | #29 of 48 |
Ranked against other public high 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
596
-32 (-5%) vs 2020
+48% since 2010-11, when it was 402
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 20.9:1
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 | 596 | 31 | 19.2:1 | 76% (451) |
| 2023-24 | 611 | 30.2 | 20.3:1 | 75% (459) |
| 2022-23 | 598 | 30.9 | 19.4:1 | 72% (431) |
| 2020-21 | 628 | 30 | 20.9:1 | 78% (489) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 31 | 20.7:1 | 73% (469) |
| 2015-16 | 620 | 35 | 17.7:1 | 78% (481) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 22 | 18.3:1 | 75% (301) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY.
About YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY
Students in JAMAICA, New York, attend YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY, a mid-sized high school. The school serves grades 6 through 12. Enrollment is 596 students.
Enrollment across the 50 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 totals 36,340 students.
The biggest share of students at YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY, 47%, is Black. Next come 25% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 11% Native American, and 4% Pacific Islander. That compares with about 17% Black among all Queens County residents. The diversity index for YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is 69%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 19.2:1. The school has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for high schools in New York is 11.0:1. In all, 76% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Queens County is similar, at 77%.
On the allk12 Grade, YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY lands at B-, ahead of 52% of New York public high schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is 47.2%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 56.3%.
The school's county is Queens County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $86,136, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY among them.
EMERSON SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest public school to YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is 3rd of 9 on proficiency.
YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY has an NCES locale of City: Large.
The school's enrollment fell 5% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 20.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 19.2:1.
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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 #28
- FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,394 students
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 157 STEPHEN A HALSEYMiddle · 1,611 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- QUEENS METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Other schools in JAMAICA
- HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,298 students
- THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,146 students
- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL IIElementary · 810 students
Nearby schools
- EMERSON SCHOOL (THE)0.0 mi · 284
- JHS 8 RICHARD S GROSSLEY0.0 mi · 354
- JAMAICA CHILDREN'S SCHOOL0.3 mi · 257
- PS 40 SAMUEL HUNTINGTON0.3 mi · 399
- PS/IS 116 WILLIAM C HUGHLEY0.4 mi · 806
- DAVID N DINKINS SCHOOL0.6 mi · 446
Frequently asked questions
About YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY?
YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY enrolls approximately 596 students in grades 06-12.
Is YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many teachers does YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY have?
YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY?
At YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 1% White, 11% Hispanic, 47% Black, 25% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY?
YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.