NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Cambria Heights, NY

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

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6
Schools
2,957
Students
20.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cambria Heights has more public-school enrollment than 28% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cambria Heights's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

4 of the 6 listed Cambria Heights schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Cambria Heights's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 1st percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 60th percentile. The 59-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 72%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
1st percentile
Teacher staffing
60th percentile

Health Arts Robotics and Technology High School accounts for 21.2% of all Cambria Heights public-school enrollment

That concentration means Cambria Heights-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

Cambria Heights reports 68.9% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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

Cambria Heights operates one school district — a single-district system

Cambria Heights's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cambria Heights student-teacher ratio is 14.6:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Cambria Heights is typically wider than the Cambria Heights-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Ps/Ms 147 Ronald Mcnair 30
2. Institute for Health Professions at Cambria Heights 29
3. Benjamin Franklin Hs-Fin Info Tech 24
4. Math/Science Research/Tech Magnet 17
5. Ps 176 Cambria Heights 15
6. Health Arts Robotics and Technology High School 10

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Cambria Heights

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 Benjamin Franklin Hs-Fin Info Tech 52.6/100
  2. 2 Health Arts Robotics and Technology High School 51.1/100
  3. 3 Institute for Health Professions at Cambria Heights 47.7/100
  4. 4 Math/Science Research/Tech Magnet 43.9/100
  5. 5 Ps/Ms 147 Ronald Mcnair 40.3/100

What do families ask about schools in Cambria Heights?

Which Cambria Heights school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ps/Ms 147 Ronald Mcnair has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cambria Heights schools in this federal-data comparison at 30/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Cambria Heights, NY? ▼

Cambria Heights has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,957 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.6:1.

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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.