NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Bellerose, NY

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8 public K-12 schools in Bellerose from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
3,668
Students
37.4/100
Avg Resource Index
9.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bellerose has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bellerose sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Bellerose's 8 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Bellerose lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 40 to 840 students, a 21-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 61%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
34th percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Queens High School of Teaching Liberal Arts and Sciences accounts for 22.9% of all Bellerose public-school enrollment

That concentration means Bellerose-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bellerose school enrollment varies 21× across entities

Bellerose school enrollment ranges from 40 students (lowest) to 840 students (highest), a spread of 800 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bellerose reports 57.3% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bellerose student-teacher ratio is 9.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Queens High School of Teaching Liberal Arts and Sciences 56
2. Ps 186 Castlewood 47
3. Ps/is 266 44
4. Ps 224 38
5. Ps 23 at Queens Children Center 35
6. New York City Children's Center 30
7. Ps/is 208 29
8. Ps 133 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bellerose

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Ps/is 266 75.3/100
  2. 2 Ps 186 Castlewood 72.8/100
  3. 3 Ps 224 72.2/100
  4. 4 Ps 23 at Queens Children Center 71.6/100
  5. 5 Queens High School of Teaching Liberal Arts and Sciences 70.7/100

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Which Bellerose school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Queens High School of Teaching Liberal Arts and Sciences has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bellerose schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bellerose, NY? ▼

Bellerose has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,668 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 9.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.