PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER

PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER operates as an intimate elementary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31. Current enrollment sits at 315 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 443.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, which oversees 74 schools and 56,577 students, PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Black, 4% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Richmond County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.3%; actual is 18.7%, a gap of -21.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Richmond County put the typical household earns roughly $98,333 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Richmond County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students), PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER is one campus in the mix.

IS 27 ANNING S PRALL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 45%: 568 students in 2018 compared to 315 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 44% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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