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If you had an hour of school board time for CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
2,439
High
DISTRICT 1,567 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010301939
CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL
105 HAMILTON AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301 · (718) 390-1800 · Richmond County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,439 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
173 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
1,950 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 876 | 36% |
| Grade 10 | 668 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 519 | 21% |
| Grade 12 | 375 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
65%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
80.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
35.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL
CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (52.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL this school | 2,439 | 80.0% | 52.7% |
| PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 1,696 | 82.6% | 40.5% |
| HIGH SCHOOL OF FASHION INDUSTRIES (THE) NEW YORK | 1,455 | 81.3% | 62.0% |
| MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 2,495 | 71.2% | 56.7% |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 2,210 | 83.6% | 51.7% |
| HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOL BRONX | 1,650 | 81.3% | 50.7% |
Matched among New York high 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 CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #691 of 1,135 | #7 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #807 of 1,109 ▲ 28 | #8 of 13 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #419 of 1,135 ▲ 74 | #6 of 13 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,439 | #32 of 1,216 | #4 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #938 of 1,058 | #6 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #172 of 1,070 | #6 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.0% | #450 of 1,167 | #7 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.8% | #576 of 743 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high 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
2,439
-17 (-1%) vs 2020
-5% since 2010-11, when it was 2,571
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 2,439 | 173.2 | 14.1:1 | 80% (1,950) |
| 2023-24 | 2,256 | 159 | 14.2:1 | 80% (1,799) |
| 2022-23 | 2,153 | 152.3 | 14.1:1 | 79% (1,694) |
| 2020-21 | 2,456 | 151 | 16.3:1 | 77% (1,893) |
| 2017-18 | 2,590 | 142.1 | 18.2:1 | 75% (1,953) |
| 2015-16 | 2,523 | 129 | 19.6:1 | 73% (1,835) |
| 2010-11 | 2,571 | 115 | 22.4:1 | 60% (1,555) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL.
About CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL
CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL, located in STATEN ISLAND, New York, is a high-enrollment high school. The school had 2,439 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for high schools in New York is about 668, so this school runs 265% larger than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 counts 56,577 students in its 74 schools, and CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL is one of them.
Federal enrollment data show Hispanic students as the largest group at CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL, at 49%. Other reported shares: 30% Black, 10% White, 7% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Richmond County's residents are about 20% Hispanic, 29 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 65%, meaning two students picked at random have a 65% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school has about 14.1 students per teacher and 173.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 3.1 above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 80%. That is higher than the 67% average for public schools in Richmond County.
Measured against New York public high schools, CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL's results are 7.1 points above predicted: 52.7% against 45.6%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Richmond County, the median household income is $98,333, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL is one of 88 public schools in the county.
HARBOR VIEW SCHOOL (THE) is the closest public school, about 0.2 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 42.0%, lower than CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL's 52.7%.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL enrolled 2,456; in 2024-25, 2,439. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.3:1 in 2020-21, and 14.1:1 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
- PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,696 students
- IS 72 ROCCO LAURIEMiddle · 1,532 students
- IS 75 FRANK D PAULOMiddle · 1,514 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
- PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,696 students
- IS 72 ROCCO LAURIEMiddle · 1,532 students
- IS 75 FRANK D PAULOMiddle · 1,514 students
Nearby schools
- HARBOR VIEW SCHOOL (THE)0.2 mi · 256
- RALPH R MCKEE CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 626
- PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS0.3 mi · 342
- PS 16 JOHN J DRISCOLL0.4 mi · 377
- FORT HILL COLLABORATIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 182
- PS 74 FUTURE LEADERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 255
Frequently asked questions
About CURTIS HIGH SCHOOLHow large is CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL?
CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,439 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL serve?
CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.1:1 students per teacher at CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 10% White, 49% Hispanic, 30% Black, 7% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL?
CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 in Richmond County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.