District 28: chronic absenteeism by school

Queens, New York City · 50 schools

31.1%

chronically absent in 2024-25

33.3%

all NYC public schools

of 50 schools lowered their rate from 2023-24

The district rate fell 2.8 points from 2023-24, and was 24.0% in 2018-19, before the pandemic.

Schools in District 28

School	2024-25	Change
Catherine & Count Basie Middle School 7228Q072	47.2%	up 2.4
David N. Dinkins School28Q048	42.9%	down 2.1
Forest Hills High School28Q440	19.9%	down 1.0
High School for Community Leadership28Q328	48.7%	down 11.2
High School for Law Enforcement and Public Safety28Q690	23.1%	down 21.0
Hillcrest High School28Q505	39.7%	down 6.1
Hillside Arts & Letters Academy28Q325	48.2%	up 1.3
J.H.S. 008 Richard S. Grossley28Q008	39.3%	down 7.6
J.H.S. 157 Stephen A. Halsey28Q157	22.2%	down 5.3
J.H.S. 190 Russell Sage28Q190	33.9%	up 3.4
J.H.S. 217 Robert A. Van Wyck28Q217	31.1%	down 7.7
Jamaica Children's School28Q312	53.4%	down 2.4
Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences28Q350	33.3%	down 7.1
M.S. 35828Q358	28.2%	down 6.3
Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School28Q167	35.9%	up 5.4
P.S. 040 Samuel Huntington28Q040	49.8%	down 4.5
P.S. 050 Talfourd Lawn Elementary School28Q050	41.6%	down 2.7
P.S. 054 Hillside28Q054	27.5%	down 7.4
P.S. 055 Maure28Q055	35.0%	down 2.9
P.S. 082 Hammond28Q082	36.0%	down 13.4
P.S. 099 Kew Gardens28Q099	23.0%	down 4.2
P.S. 101 School in the Gardens28Q101	14.6%	up 0.5
P.S. 117 J. Keld / Briarwood School28Q117	38.5%	down 4.9
P.S. 121 Queens28Q121	30.5%	down 7.9
P.S. 139 Rego Park28Q139	29.1%	up 1.7
P.S. 140 Edward K Ellington28Q140	40.6%	down 3.3
P.S. 144 Col Jeromus Remsen28Q144	14.7%	down 5.9
P.S. 160 Walter Francis Bishop28Q160	42.7%	down 9.2
P.S. 161 Arthur Ashe School28Q161	36.0%	down 4.0
P.S. 174 William Sidney Mount28Q174	16.4%	steady
P.S. 175 The Lynn Gross Discovery School28Q175	33.0%	up 2.8
P.S. 182 Samantha Smith28Q182	40.8%	up 3.2
P.S. 196 Grand Central Parkway28Q196	14.4%	up 2.5
P.S. 206 The Horace Harding School28Q206	31.2%	down 1.2
P.S. 220 Edward Mandel28Q220	40.4%	up 7.8
P.S. Q08628Q086	36.6%	down 3.9
PS 80 The Thurgood Marshall Magnet School of Multimedia and Communication28Q080	39.2%	down 2.6
Queens Collegiate: A College Board School28Q310	28.8%	up 0.5
Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School28Q680	14.3%	down 6.7
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College28Q687	7.1%	up 1.0
Queens Metropolitan High School28Q686	27.5%	steady
Redwood Middle School28Q332	44.3%	down 2.7
The Academy for Excellence through the Arts28Q303	15.7%	down 0.8
The Emerson School28Q287	48.0%	down 0.5
The Ezra Jack Keats Pre-K Center28Q335	67.7%	up 13.7
The Jermaine L. Green STEM Institute of Queens28Q354	38.1%	down 3.1
The Queens School for Leadership and Excellence28Q349	30.5%	down 2.5
Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School28Q620	24.8%	down 2.3
York Early College Academy28Q284	28.2%	down 3.8
Young Women's Leadership School, Queens28Q896	33.7%	up 2.3

District 28 by year

Year	District	NYC
2018-19	24.0%	26.5%
2019-20	22.0%	25.1%
2020-21	24.8%	29.7%
2021-22	38.2%	40.4%
2022-23	33.8%	36.2%
2023-24	33.9%	34.8%
2024-25	31.1%	33.3%

▼ and ▲ show the change in percentage points from 2023-24. Source: NYC Public Schools, End-of-Year Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism Data. The district rate includes transfer schools, which the school-level data leaves out.

Every absence followed up, across District 28.

BrainBridge gives each school’s attendance team a daily follow-up list from the ATS file, family texts from each staff member’s own line, and a weekly meeting agenda, with the records A-210 asks for.

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