Education

Jamaica and Hollis generally have a lower rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city. While 29% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 19% have less than a high school education and 51% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 39% of Queens residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.The percentage of Jamaica and Hollis students excelling in math rose from 36% in 2000 to 55% in 2011, and reading achievement increased slightly from 44% to 45% during the same time period. Jamaica and Hollis's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is more than the rest of New York City. In Jamaica and Hollis, 22% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, higher than the citywide average of 20%. Additionally, 74% of high school students in Jamaica and Hollis graduate on time, about the same as the citywide average of 75%.

Primary and secondary schools Abigail Adams School Public schools Jamaica's public schools are operated by the New York City Department of Education.

Public high schools in Jamaica include:

• Springfield Gardens Educational Campus (formerly Springfield Gardens High School)
• August Martin High School
• Eagle Academy for Young Men of Southeast Queens
• Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High School
• Hillcrest High School
• Campus Magnet Educational Campus (formerly Andrew Jackson High School)
• Jamaica Campus (formerly Jamaica High School)
• Queens High School for the Sciences at York College
• Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School
• High School for Law Enforcement and Public Safety
• The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens
• York Early College Academy

Public elementary and middle schools in Jamaica include:

• IS 231
• PS 80

• PS 45 Clarence Witherspoon
• PS 50 Talfourd Lawn Elementary School
• PS 86
• PS 95
• PS 131 Abigail Adams Elementary School
• PS 160
• PS 182 Samantha Smith
• IS 238 Susan B Anthony
• PS 48 William Wordsworth
• IS 8
• JGS 72, Catherine and Count Basie
• PS 40 Samuel Huntington

Private schools

Private schools in Jamaica include:

• Al-Iman School, an Islamic PK-12 school.
• Archbishop Molloy High School, formerly an all-boys' Catholic high school, now co-ed.
• Immaculate Conception School, a co-ed Catholic school from pre-K to 8th grade. The school is a local landmark located on
• the property of Immaculate Conception Church and Monastery, run by the Passionist Congregation of priests.
• St. Nicholas of Tolentine, a co-ed Catholic school from pre-K to 8th grade, run by the Sisters of Charity
• The Mary Louis Academy, a Catholic girls' high school run by the Sisters of St. Joseph.
• United Nations International School, a private school in Jamaica Estates.[citation needed]
• Cariculum Academy Preschool of Southeast Queens, a community schoolhouse
• Our Lady's Catholic Academy, located in South Ozone Park. it is a co-ed school from nursery to grade 8
• The Catholic schools are administered by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.
• From its 1975 founding to around 1980, the Japanese School of New York was located in Jamaica Estates