IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN

IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN, a roomy 6-8 campus in STATEN ISLAND, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, instructs 1,177 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 122% bigger than typical.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, which oversees 74 schools and 56,577 students, IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN is one campus in the system.

On demographics, IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN lists that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN reports 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Richmond County's rate of about 67%.

After controlling for student poverty, IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 57.2%; IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN posts 81.7%, +24.6 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Richmond County shows median household income runs about $98,333, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Richmond County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students), IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN. On composite proficiency, IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 72.4%.

IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 1,166 (now 1,177). White enrollment moved from 83% to 67% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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