Channel View School for Research

Channel View's ELA proficiency (50.8%) sits about five points below the district average of 56%, and math proficiency (35.1%) trails the district by more than 22 points — a substantial gap. The picture was dramatically different just a few years ago: ELA climbed from 33.6% in 2016 to 53.3% in 2019, and math reached 50% that same year. Since 2022, ELA has plateaued in the high-40s to low-50s while math has bounced around the mid-30s to high-30s, unable to recapture that pre-pandemic peak. Within the building, 8th-grade math stands out as a weak spot at 23.2% proficiency, even though 7th-grade math is a healthier 48.9%.

The single most striking climate number here is zero suspensions — not a single one in the reported period, compared to a district average suspension rate of 0.5%. That's a real point of pride. Families clearly feel good about the school: parent satisfaction is 89%, parent-teacher trust is 92%, and parent-principal trust is 89%, all near or above where the district sits on similar measures. But two things temper the picture. First, chronic absenteeism is high at 65.7%, meaning roughly two-thirds of students miss enough school days to qualify — even though the daily attendance rate is a healthier 91%. Second, teachers' views of the school are more mixed: teacher-principal trust is only 71% and teacher-reported instruction quality (85%) sits below the district average, suggesting some faculty frustration with leadership that parents don't see.

The student body is 42% Hispanic, 39% Black, 10% White, and 7% Asian, with a diversity index of 70%. Roughly 70% of students qualify as having high economic need, which is notably higher than the surrounding Rockaway neighborhood, where the poverty rate is just 9.3% and median household income tops $115K. The mismatch tells you what screened admissions already implies: Channel View pulls kids from across District 27, not just from the immediate beach-side blocks. About 16% of students have IEPs.

The school anchors a stretch of the Rockaway peninsula called Breezy Point–Belle Harbor–Rockaway Park–Broad Channel, one of the more economically comfortable pockets of southern Queens. Median household income is $115,231, the poverty rate is just 9.3%, and more than 65% of homes are owner-occupied, with a median home value north of $784,000. Only about 18% of households here have children under 18, which is part of why the school draws so heavily from outside the immediate census tract. Almost half of neighborhood adults hold a bachelor's degree.

The school is genuinely walkable to transit: Beach 105 St (A and S trains) is about a five-minute walk, Beach 98 St (A and S) is roughly six minutes, and Rockaway Park–Beach 116 St (A and S) is about a 13-minute walk. For families coming from farther up the peninsula or from across Jamaica Bay, the A is the workhorse line.