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Enrollment
871
Middle
DISTRICT 954 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010301973
IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS
445 CASTLETON AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301 · (718) 727-8481 · Richmond County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL871 STUDENTS
C-
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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
10.6:1
82 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
736 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 | 264 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 301 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 301 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
Student demographics
63%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
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
26.7%
NY avg 57.4% . -10.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 26.7% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 36.9% |
% 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
36.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS
IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS's state test result (36.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS this school | 871 | 84.5% | 36.2% |
| POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 871 | 84.4% | 29.6% |
| IS 51 EDWIN MARKHAM STATEN ISLAND | 1,072 | 77.9% | 53.3% |
| MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 826 | 74.7% | 37.5% |
| MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 820 | 76.7% | 39.2% |
| JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER BROOKLYN | 651 | 87.4% | 45.8% |
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 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #652 of 766 | #11 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #724 of 768 ▼ 67 | #12 of 13 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #595 of 768 ▼ 93 | #12 of 13 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 871 | #122 of 796 | #8 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #393 of 683 | #2 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #144 of 688 | #8 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.5% | #198 of 773 | #3 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #288 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
871
-129 (-13%) vs 2020
-31% since 2010-11, when it was 1,266
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 871 | 82.1 | 10.6:1 | 85% (736) |
| 2023-24 | 926 | 82.1 | 11.3:1 | 84% (775) |
| 2022-23 | 932 | 74.3 | 12.6:1 | 84% (781) |
| 2020-21 | 1,000 | 83 | 12.1:1 | 80% (797) |
| 2017-18 | 982 | 74.2 | 13.2:1 | 82% (810) |
| 2015-16 | 1,125 | 82 | 13.7:1 | 77% (861) |
| 2010-11 | 1,266 | 83 | 15.3:1 | 70% (890) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS.
About IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS
IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS is a large middle school based in STATEN ISLAND, New York. It reports enrollment of 871 students in grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in New York enroll around 531, and this school is 64% bigger than that mark.
IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS is among 74 schools run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, which serves 56,577 students.
At IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS, 50% of students are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 32% Black, 10% White, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Richmond County is about 20% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS scores 63%.
Teacher count: 82.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.6:1. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is close to this figure. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 85%. The 67% average for public schools in Richmond County is 18 points lower.
IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 16% of New York public middle schools.
In New York, IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 36.2% actual against a predicted 43.9%.
In Richmond County, home to about 494,956 people, median household income comes to about $98,333, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. There are 88 public schools in the county, enrolling about 62,254, IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS among them.
About 0.5 miles separate IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS from the closest public school, PS 373. The five-mile area around IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS at 3rd of 8.
NCES describes the area around IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 13%, from 1,000 to 871. The ratio was 12.1:1 in 2020-21 and 10.6:1 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
- 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
- PS 3730.5 mi · 710
- PS 45 JOHN TYLER0.7 mi · 751
- PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS0.8 mi · 342
- PS 74 FUTURE LEADERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 255
- PS 16 JOHN J DRISCOLL1.0 mi · 377
- FORT HILL COLLABORATIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 182
Frequently asked questions
About IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRISWhat is the total enrollment at IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS?
IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS enrolls approximately 871 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS serve?
IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS?
Approximately 10.6:1 students per teacher at IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS.
What is the racial breakdown of students at IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS?
At IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS, the student body is approximately 10% White, 50% Hispanic, 32% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS?
IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS 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.