EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE)

EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE), a compact high school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, educates 280 students, covering grades 6 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE) sits 58% leaner than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, which oversees 74 schools and 56,577 students, EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE) is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE) records that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 39% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE) lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Richmond County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -0.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Richmond County put the typical household earns roughly $98,333 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Richmond County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students), EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE) is one campus in the mix.

IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE). Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE) at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 40.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 11%: 253 students in 2018 compared to 280 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 9% to 4% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 6.3:1 today.

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