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Enrollment
806
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302233
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)
330 DURANT AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10308 · (718) 987-8020 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL806 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
419 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 73 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 112 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 120 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 126 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 134 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 133 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (112) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (133).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
83.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
83.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 83.0% |
| 2023-24 | 74.0% | 81.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
77.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (77.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) this school | 806 | 52.0% | 77.6% |
| PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON STATEN ISLAND | 750 | 55.7% | 82.3% |
| PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 694 | 51.3% | 72.2% |
| PS 48 WILLIAM G WILCOX STATEN ISLAND | 964 | 52.2% | 71.5% |
| PS 4 MAURICE WOLLIN STATEN ISLAND | 862 | 47.8% | 61.3% |
| PS 42 ELTINGVILLE STATEN ISLAND | 995 | 48.9% | 67.0% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.6% | #203 of 2,335 | #7 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #270 of 2,342 ▲ 5 | #10 of 53 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #180 of 2,343 ▲ 1 | #5 of 53 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 806 | #144 of 2,585 | #6 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #2,181 of 2,338 | #50 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #534 of 2,388 | #25 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.0% | #1,344 of 2,534 | #40 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.9% | #1,607 of 1,757 | #30 of 34 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
806
-4 (0%) vs 2020
+16% since 2010-11, when it was 692
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 16.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 806 | 49.9 | 16.2:1 | 52% (419) |
| 2023-24 | 803 | 47.4 | 16.9:1 | 54% (434) |
| 2022-23 | 811 | 49.3 | 16.5:1 | 51% (414) |
| 2020-21 | 810 | 49 | 16.5:1 | 42% (343) |
| 2017-18 | 830 | 52 | 16.0:1 | 39% (322) |
| 2015-16 | 781 | 52 | 15.0:1 | 41% (319) |
| 2010-11 | 692 | 45 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE).
About BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, reachable at (718) 987-8020. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 806 students. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 82% higher.
Besides BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE), NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 runs 73 other schools. The district enrolls 56,577 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) is White, with 50% of students. The remaining shares are 30% Asian, 16% Hispanic, and 2% multiracial. Richmond County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school's share is lower. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) scores 64%.
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) has a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.2:1, with 49.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. The school has 52% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Richmond County is 67%.
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 94% of New York public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) ranks in the top 10% in New York. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 77.6%, against a prediction of 55.9%.
Looking at the county, Richmond County, the median household earns about $98,333 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Richmond County has 88 public schools with about 62,254 students, including BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE).
IS 24 MYRA S BARNES is about 0.6 miles from BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE), the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) is 5th on average proficiency.
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) has an NCES locale of City: Large.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 810 in 2020-21, 806 in 2024-25.
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Richmond County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
494,956
Census ACS
Median income
$98,333
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
62,254 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31
- TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,750 students
- NEW DORP HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,055 students
- SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,743 students
- CURTIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,439 students
- PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,696 students
- IS 72 ROCCO LAURIEMiddle · 1,532 students
Other schools in STATEN ISLAND
- TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,750 students
- NEW DORP HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,055 students
- SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,743 students
- CURTIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,439 students
- PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,696 students
- IS 72 ROCCO LAURIEMiddle · 1,532 students
Nearby schools
- IS 24 MYRA S BARNES0.6 mi · 1,314
- PS 8 SHIRLEE SOLOMON0.9 mi · 542
- PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON0.9 mi · 750
- PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE)1.0 mi · 694
- DAVID MARQUIS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)1.1 mi · 556
- PS 23 RICHMONDTOWN1.3 mi · 608
Frequently asked questions
About BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)How large is BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)?
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 806 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) serve?
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) is approximately 16.2:1 (50 FTE teachers).
How diverse is BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)?
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) reports a student body of 50% White, 16% Hispanic, 2% Black, 30% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) in?
BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.