High · New York
Hillside Arts & Letters Academy
Hillside Arts & Letters Academy, a public high school in Jamaica, New York: grades 9–12, 414 students, 13.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of New York City Geographic District #28.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 414
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.7
- Students per teacher
- 13.5
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 84% of high schools in New York
Median 10.8 · 1,173 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 57% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 56% of high schools in New York
Median 459 · 1,205 schools compared
Larger than 50% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Large city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with New York City Geographic District #28.
Location
- Address
- 167-01 Gothic Dr, Jamaica, NY 11432
- Phone
- (718)658-1249
- City or town
- New York
- County
- Queens County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6–12 | 711 | 14.6 | |
Jamaica Gateway To the SciencesFree meals for all | 9–12 | 531 | 16.5 |
| 9–12 | 497 | 10.9 | |
Thomas A Edison Career and Technical Education High SchoolCareer and technicalFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,146 | 15.4 |
Hillcrest High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,298 | 14.1 |
Queens Satellite High School for OpportunityFree meals for all | 9–12 | 187 | 40.7 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
NCES 360010006174