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Test scores here tell an unusual upward story. ELA proficiency has climbed from 70.6% in 2016 to 87.6% in 2025, with math rising from 81.4% to 90.6% over the same window — both now comfortably above district averages of roughly 76% and 80%. The school earns an overall score of 3.56/4 versus a district middle school average of 3.12. Scores are strong and consistent across all three grades, with 6th-graders slightly outpacing the older students in math. The one subject where this school looks more ordinary is science: at 58.7% proficiency, it lags well behind the school's own ELA and math results, suggesting strengths that are concentrated in language-arts and quantitative work rather than lab science.

With 96.7% attendance and zero suspensions reported last year, the day-to-day feel here is unusually orderly. Teachers rate their own instructional quality at 98% — well above the district average of roughly 90% — and parent trust in both teachers (96%) and the principal (97%) is exceptionally high, pointing to leadership that has earned credibility on both sides of the school door. The chronic absenteeism figure (91.8% as reported) reads as the inverse — i.e., the share of students attending regularly — and lines up cleanly with the strong attendance rate. Discipline trends are essentially flat-to-improving: suspensions dropped from 1 in each of the prior two years to 0 in 2023-24. The lower family survey response rate (45%) is worth flagging but doesn't meaningfully undercut the trust picture.

The student body is majority Asian (57%) with a sizable White population (21%) and smaller shares of Hispanic (14%), Black (5%), and multiracial (3%) students, giving the school a moderate diversity index of 66%. That mix tracks the surrounding neighborhood reasonably well: Douglaston-Little Neck skews affluent, largely Asian-American and white, with homeownership well above the city average. The 12% IEP share and the presence of ELL support suggest the school isn't purely a selective academic enclave — there's real range in student needs behind the high average scores.

Douglaston-Little Neck is one of the most suburban-feeling parts of Queens, where median household income runs around $112,000, the poverty rate is just 7%, and more than 70% of households own their homes. About one in five households has children, and over half of adults hold a bachelor's degree — demographic patterns that line up neatly with this school's screened admissions and high academic outcomes.

This is not a transit-convenient school — no subway stations are within a 20-minute walk, which means most families drive, walk from nearby blocks, or use local bus service. A car (or a bus commute from further afield) is part of daily life for most families here.