NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in STATEN ISLAND, New York, NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a big elementary school, operated by NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL. It educates 803 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 81% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL records that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 28% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Richmond County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +10.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Richmond County put median household income runs about $98,333, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Richmond County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students), NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PS 21 MARGARET EMERY-ELM PARK is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. As a public charter, NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 112%: 379 students in 2018 compared to 803 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.