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Enrollment
1,423
Combined
DISTRICT 765 · STATE 544
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010301827
MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)
715 OCEAN TERR, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301 · (718) 815-0186 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,423 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of New York public K-12 schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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 K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
113 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 8.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
965 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 5% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 6% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 6% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 6% |
| Grade 6 | 135 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 123 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 128 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 135 | 9% |
| Grade 10 | 111 | 8% |
| Grade 11 | 115 | 8% |
| Grade 12 | 130 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 49% smaller than its 8th grade class (128).
Student demographics
74%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
69.7%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.3pp since 2023
Math
56.4%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.7% | 56.4% |
| 2023-24 | 61.4% | 56.0% |
% 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
58.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)
MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (58.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) this school | 1,423 | 67.8% | 58.6% |
| YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY YONKERS | 1,234 | 64.7% | 50.9% |
| HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL HUDSON | 493 | 62.1% | 53.3% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 BROOKLYN | 919 | 68.8% | 92.0% |
| JERICHO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CENTEREACH | 423 | 48.2% | 33.9% |
| CITIZENSHIP AND SCIENCE ACADEMY OF SYRACUSE CHARTER SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 764 | 82.1% | 22.0% |
Matched among New York K-12 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 MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.6% | #32 of 101 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.4% | #54 of 101 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.7% | #16 of 101 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,423 | #4 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #134 of 146 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.0% | #8 of 152 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.8% | #53 of 136 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.4% | #41 of 59 |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
1,423
+56 (+4%) vs 2020
+8% since 2010-11, when it was 1,315
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 1,423 | 112.8 | 12.6:1 | 68% (965) |
| 2023-24 | 1,429 | 107.2 | 13.3:1 | 59% (841) |
| 2022-23 | 1,444 | 100.6 | 14.4:1 | 57% (830) |
| 2020-21 | 1,367 | 89 | 15.4:1 | 48% (657) |
| 2017-18 | 1,313 | 86 | 15.3:1 | 47% (618) |
| 2015-16 | 1,326 | 79 | 16.8:1 | 48% (636) |
| 2010-11 | 1,315 | 68 | 19.3:1 | 43% (565) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE).
About MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)
Federal records list MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) as a school serving multiple grade levels in STATEN ISLAND, New York. The school has 1,423 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 12. By comparison, combined schools in New York enroll about 544 students on average.
MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) is among 74 schools run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, which serves 56,577 students.
About 35% of students at MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) are Hispanic, the largest single group. It is also 28% White, 21% Black, 12% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Richmond County's residents are about 20% Hispanic, 16 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 74, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 112.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 12.6:1. The average for combined schools in New York, 8.7:1, is lower. Of all students at MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE), 68% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Richmond County average a similar 67%.
On the allk12 Grade, MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) lands at B+, ahead of 69% of New York public K-12 schools.
The model predicts 50.0% for a school in New York with MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)'s free or reduced-price lunch share. MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) posts 58.6%.
The school's county is Richmond County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $98,333 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) shares Richmond County with 87 other public schools.
MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) is less than a tenth of a mile from RICHARD H HUNGERFORD SCHOOL (THE), its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) at 5th of 8.
The NCES locale for MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 1,423, up from 1,367 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 15.4:1 to 12.6:1 between 2020-21 and 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
- RICHARD H HUNGERFORD SCHOOL (THE)0.0 mi · 516
- BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.0 mi · 263
- PS 35 CLOVE VALLEY SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 367
- PS 29 BARDWELL0.7 mi · 579
- PS 48 WILLIAM G WILCOX0.8 mi · 964
- NAPLES STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 311
Frequently asked questions
About MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)How large is MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)?
MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 1,423 students in grades PK-12.
Is MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) is a combined-grade school covering grades PK-12.
How many teachers does MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) have?
MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) employs 113 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
What is the student diversity at MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)?
Student demographics at MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) are roughly 28% White, 35% Hispanic, 21% Black, 12% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) public or private?
MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) 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.