Middle Village Preparatory Charter School

Test scores here have climbed sharply over the past decade — ELA proficiency rose from 44.1% in 2016 to 70.8% in 2025, while math jumped from 51.4% to 70.4% over the same span. Both subjects now run roughly 20 percentage points above the district average of 51.1% in ELA and 54.8% in math. After peaking in 2022-23, scores have plateaued in the low-70s, suggesting the school has consolidated gains rather than continuing to climb — and grade-by-grade results are uneven, with 8th-grade math dropping to 60.6% even as 7th-grade math hits 77.3%.

Day-to-day, this is a school where families feel heard and teachers feel supported. Attendance is strong at 95.9% — well above the district average of 92.7% — and 96% of parents say they're satisfied with the school, alongside 93% trusting their child's teacher and 94% trusting the principal. Teachers rate their own instruction quality at 98% and trust leadership at 91%, though collegial trust among teachers is more modest at 83%, which can matter in a charter setting where staff culture shapes everything.

The student body is predominantly Hispanic (54%) and White (34%), with smaller Asian (9%), multiracial (1%), Black (1%), and Native American (1%) populations, giving a diversity index of 59%. About 57% of students qualify for economic need, which tracks closely with the surrounding Ridgewood neighborhood, where median household income is $83,559 and 12.6% of residents live in poverty. The school draws a working- and middle-class mix from a neighborhood where renters outnumber owners nearly five to one.

Ridgewood is a working- and middle-class neighborhood in eastern Queens where families rent more often than they own, and home values have climbed to roughly $1 million despite a modest 35.8% college-degree rate among adults. Households with children make up 17.2% of residents, and the median household income of $83,559 reflects a comfortable but not wealthy community with deep roots. Getting around is straightforward — the M train pulls into Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue about a two-minute walk from the school.

The Middle Village-Metropolitan Av station on the M line is about a two-minute walk from the school, with Fresh Pond Rd (M) roughly 11 minutes away and Forest Av (M) about 19 minutes on foot.