Central Queens Academy Charter School II

Because this school serves only K through second grade, formal state ELA and math proficiency data isn't a useful yardstick here — those assessments don't start until third grade. What the numbers do tell us is that teacher-reported instruction quality sits at 91%, essentially in line with the district average of 91.7%, which is a respectable signal for the early-elementary classroom. Parents thinking longer-term can use the original Central Queens Academy Charter School campus in this district, rated 82/100, as a sibling reference point for how the network tends to perform as students age.

This is a trust-rich environment by every measure available. Teacher-principal trust hits 100% and parent-principal trust reaches 97%, while parent-teacher trust sits at 96% — numbers that together describe a small school where communication between adults is running unusually well. Teacher-reported safety is 98%, meaningfully above the district average of 94.9%, and the family response rate of 91% is exceptionally high for a school survey, signaling real parental engagement. The honest caveat: only 11 teachers completed the survey, a small sample that's worth weighing even when the results look uniformly strong.

The school community mirrors its Elmhurst setting — a working- and middle-class neighborhood where the median household income is around $68,000, the BA+ rate is 30%, and homeownership sits at 27% despite a median home value approaching $693,000. Nearly a quarter of neighborhood households include children, which translates into plenty of young families in the surrounding blocks. Elmhurst is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse neighborhoods in New York City, and that mix tends to show up in the student body of any school in the area.

Elmhurst is a dense, family-rich pocket of central Queens where roughly a quarter of households include children and the streets are reliably busy. The median household income sits around $68,000 and the college-degree rate is 30%, a profile that reads working- and middle-class rather than affluent, with about 11% of residents living below the poverty line. The neighborhood is one of the most ethnically and linguistically mixed in the entire city, a fact that shapes the feel of every school that serves it.

Families can reach the school in about a three-minute walk from Grand Av-Newtown (M, R trains), with Woodhaven Blvd (M, R) roughly nine minutes on foot and Elmhurst Av (M, R) about an eleven-minute walk.