Original Research by School Decision on High School for Arts and Business
High School for Arts and Business is a regular public high school in Corona, Queens, serving a student body of about that size across grades nine through twelve. The school sits within the dense, walkable grid of Corona, a working-class, immigrant neighborhood dominated by small businesses, food vendors, and early-20th-century rowhouses and apartment buildings. The building itself occupies a former bowling alley on Horace Harding Expressway, embedding the school within the residential and commercial fabric rather than on a separate campus.
Corona's economy centers on small family-run businesses along Roosevelt Avenue and Corona Avenue—restaurants, panaderias, bodegas, auto shops—with larger institutional anchors at the neighborhood's edges: Queens Center mall, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital, and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The area is highly walkable, scored in the high ninety percentile, with the elevated 7 train running along Roosevelt Avenue providing direct transit to Manhattan and a pedestrian plaza at Corona creating street-level civic gathering space. The neighborhood has grown rapidly and densely in recent decades while facing housing constraints; a North Corona rezoning in recent years has aimed to allow moderate-density development along transit while preserving side-street residential scale. Recent construction includes the Helen M. Marshall Apartments for low-income seniors, which opened in early 2024, and several proposed mixed-use residential buildings.
The school's enrollment is almost entirely Hispanic, with the balance drawn from Asian and smaller numbers of Black and white students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic profile of the neighborhood and families the school serves. The school falls within District 24, which spans Corona, Elmhurst, Ridgewood, Maspeth, Glendale, and Middle Village and has long struggled with severe overcrowding at the elementary level. The district's capital plan includes three new elementary schools to relieve that pressure, and a new K-5 elementary school called West Q is opening with a project-based learning model, though that does not directly affect high school offerings. District 24 is projected to lose a substantial number of students over the coming decade, a demographic shift families considering this area should factor into their housing and school-choice decisions.
State testing data and graduation rates for this school were not available. Similarly, information on this school's specific course offerings, program specializations, staffing, attendance rates, and discipline practices did not appear in the available data. Given the school's name and its location in a neighborhood with strong arts and small-business culture, the title suggests an emphasis on those areas, but the school's actual program structure, course breadth, and student support infrastructure cannot be characterized from the information on hand. A parent interested in this school should contact the school directly to learn what programs are offered, how the arts and business curricula are integrated, what career pathways exist, and how the school supports students across academic need and interest. The school's position on Horace Harding Expressway puts it near the park and transit corridors, though the specific character of the student experience and peer environment would benefit from a direct visit and conversation with current students and staff.
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