Public school / High
Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School
Forest Hills, New York
- NCES ID
- 360010006188
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School is a public high school in Forest Hills, New York, run by New York City Geographic District #28. It enrols 839 students — the 12753rd largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
839
Teachers
70.0
Students per teacher
12.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
67.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within New York City Geographic District #28
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Forest Hills High School3,429 students
- 2Hillcrest High School2,381 students
- 3Thomas A Edison Career and Technical Education High School2,215 students
- 4Jhs 157 Stephen A Halsey1,542 students
- 5Jhs 217 Robert A Van Wyck1,348 students
- 6Queens Metropolitan High School1,024 students
- 7Jhs 190 Russell Sage1,012 students
- 8Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School839 students
- Enrollment+85.2%
- Teachers+89.2%
- Students per teacher+4.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+15.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory