IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS

IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS operates as a well-populated middle-grades school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31. Current enrollment sits at 871 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS sits 64% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 74 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 (56,577 students total), IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 32% Black, 10% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS lists 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 85% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Richmond County shows median household earnings sit near $98,333, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS is one of 88 public schools in Richmond County (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students).

The closest other public school is PS 373, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 982 (now 871). White enrollment moved from 15% to 10% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.