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101-01 Rockaway Boulevard , 11417 United States | |
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Type | Public high school |
Established | 1927 |
School board | New York City Public Schools |
School district | 27 |
School number | Q480 |
Principal | Daniel Scanlon |
Faculty | 173.5 FTEs [1] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 2,366 (as of 2022-23) [1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 13.6:1 [1] |
Color(s) | Blue and white |
Nickname | Adams |
Team name | Spartans |
Newspaper | The Campus |
Yearbook | The Clipper |
Website | www |
John Adams High School (H.S. 480; often referred to locally as John Adams) is a public high school in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City, New York, United States. Planning for the school began in 1927 [2] and classes commenced in September 1930. [3] At around the same time the city built several other high schools from the same plans, including Samuel J. Tilden High School, Far Rockaway High School, Abraham Lincoln High School, Bayside High School, and Grover Cleveland High School.
As of the 2022-23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,366 students and 173.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.6:1.There were 1,764 students eligible for free lunch and 73 eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1] [4]
John Adams has three floors and a basement. The basement contains the cafeteria, locker rooms, weight-training room, a swimming pool, numerous classrooms, and a Northwell-LIJ School Based Health Center that opened in 2015. The campus of John Adams is roughly six by three city blocks, with baseball, tennis, track, and football fields behind the school. The school also has three gymnasiums. There is also a library, an auditorium, a Virtual Enterprise Room which is a simulated business class, and several computer and science labs throughout all three floors.
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