GAYNOR MCCOWN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL

Located at 100 ESSEX DR, in STATEN ISLAND, New York, GAYNOR MCCOWN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is a compact high school that enrolls 540 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, which oversees 74 schools and 56,577 students, GAYNOR MCCOWN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, GAYNOR MCCOWN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 28% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GAYNOR MCCOWN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Richmond County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GAYNOR MCCOWN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.4%; this one delivers 69.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Richmond County indicate the typical household earns roughly $98,333 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Richmond County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students), of which GAYNOR MCCOWN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CSI HIGH SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GAYNOR MCCOWN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 67.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 23%: 439 students in 2018 compared to 540 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 65% to 45%. Class-load math has rose: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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