# NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009802038`
- **School name**: NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: ELMHURST, NY 11373
- **Address**: 48-01 90TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 (LEAID `3600098`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.74059, -73.87417
- **Phone**: (718)595-8400
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14707097 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown_High_School_(Queens)
- **Founded**: 1897

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,072
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 145
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS ELP: 3
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 2
  - HS Grad Rate: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 80.0% (cohort of 562)
- **2021**: 76.0% (cohort of 433)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.7% (730 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.8% (91 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.9% (74 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 32.5% (615 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0
- **Restraint incidents**: 0
- **Seclusion incidents**: 0
- **Referrals to law enforcement**: 0
- **Bullying allegations**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 60.9%
- **Black/African American**: 23.5%
- **Asian**: 7.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.3% — 232 students
- **English Learners**: 22.6% — 428 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 138 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 56 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,743
- **Federal share**: $3,582
- **State + local share**: $23,161
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,887
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $84,844
- **Poverty rate**: 10.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.1%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,177
- **Foreign-born residents**: 66.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.4 miles (MEEKER AVENUE PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 135
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.96 miles (104 15 ROOSEVELT AVE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 1.94% (this school: 4.81%)
- **PAN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 3.16% (this school: 4.81%)
- **CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.81%)
- **FORTE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 3.61% (this school: 4.81%)
- **RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL 2 (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 4.81%)

### graduation rate
- **CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 89% (this school: 80%)
- **PAN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 87% (this school: 80%)
- **RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 85% (this school: 80%)
- **MASPETH HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 95% (this school: 80%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND BUSINESS** — 1.1 mi away, 92% (this school: 80%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/newtown-high-school-elmhurst/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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