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Enrollment
330
Middle
DISTRICT 954 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302216
IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS
101 WARREN ST, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10304 · (718) 727-6040 · Richmond County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL330 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of New York public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
7.0:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
313 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 99 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 99 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 131 | 40% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
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
31.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +22.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 22 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 35.9% |
% 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
33.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS
IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS's state test result (33.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS this school | 330 | 94.8% | 33.6% |
| BRONX GREEN MIDDLE SCHOOL BRONX | 356 | 93.0% | 39.5% |
| JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES BRONX | 468 | 94.2% | 51.8% |
| EMERSON SCHOOL (THE) JAMAICA | 284 | 90.1% | 36.6% |
| JHS 131 ALBERT EINSTEIN BRONX | 322 | 93.5% | 38.2% |
| SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: A MOTT HALL SCHOOL BRONX | 336 | 94.9% | 63.6% |
Matched among New York middle 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 IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #682 of 766 | #12 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #401 of 768 ▲ 252 | #8 of 13 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #678 of 768 ▲ 38 | #13 of 13 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 330 | #521 of 796 | #12 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.0:1 | #8 of 683 | #1 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.7% | #137 of 688 | #7 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.8% | #73 of 773 | #1 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -47.3% | #25 of 524 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle 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
330
-296 (-47%) vs 2020
-63% since 2010-11, when it was 881
Student : Teacher
7.0:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 330 | 47.4 | 7.0:1 | 95% (313) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 52.5 | 7.5:1 | 96% (375) |
| 2022-23 | 501 | 54 | 9.3:1 | 93% (468) |
| 2020-21 | 626 | 46 | 13.6:1 | 90% (565) |
| 2017-18 | 626 | 60 | 10.4:1 | 94% (589) |
| 2015-16 | 778 | 58 | 13.4:1 | 85% (661) |
| 2010-11 | 881 | 65 | 13.6:1 | 85% (753) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS.
About IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS
IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS sits in STATEN ISLAND, New York, and is classified as a middle school. The school enrolls 330 students, from grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in New York) has about 531 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 runs 74 schools with a combined 56,577 students. IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS is one of them.
IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS is 52% Hispanic by enrollment. Other students are 28% Black, 10% Asian, and 7% White. By comparison, Richmond County residents are about 20% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 7.0:1, with 47.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is lower than the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Lunch subsidy eligibility at IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS is 95%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Richmond County is 67%.
The allk12 Grade for IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS is C-. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 16% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS would be expected to post about 40.1%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 33.6%.
County data help place the school in context: in Richmond County, the median household income is $98,333, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. In all, Richmond County has 88 public schools and roughly 62,254 students.
EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE) is the public school closest to IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 41.4% on proficiency, and IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS is below that at 33.6%.
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, federal data counted 626 students at IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS; in 2024-25, 330. The grades served may not have been the same in both years. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 13.6:1 to 7.0:1.
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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
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE)0.0 mi · 280
- PS 780.2 mi · 454
- WAVERLY ACADEMY OF EMPOWERED LEARNERS (THE)0.2 mi · 165
- YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP OF STATEN ISLAND0.2 mi · 180
- PS 57 HUBERT H HUMPHREY0.7 mi · 392
- CONCORD HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 167
Frequently asked questions
About IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUSHow many students attend IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS?
IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS enrolls approximately 330 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS serve?
IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS have?
IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.0:1.
What is the student diversity at IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS?
Student demographics at IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS are roughly 7% White, 52% Hispanic, 28% Black, 10% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS public or private?
IS 49 BERTA A DREYFUS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.