Enrollment
315
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302097
PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER
221 BROADWAY, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10310 · (718) 442-0216 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL315 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
297 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 56 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
58%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
18.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
23.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.0% | 23.0% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 16.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER
PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER's state test result (18.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER this school | 315 | 94.3% | 18.7% |
| ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 343 | 95.3% | 83.5% |
| URBAN SCHOLARS COMMUNITY SCHOOL BRONX | 294 | 98.0% | 43.0% |
| PS 112 BRONXWOOD BRONX | 370 | 93.2% | 29.7% |
| ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 6 BRONX | 299 | 89.0% | 82.3% |
| CHRISTOPHER AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 297 | 99.7% | 61.3% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #2,257 of 2,335 | #52 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #2,221 of 2,342 ▲ 46 | #51 of 53 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #2,294 of 2,343 ▼ 105 | #53 of 53 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 315 | #1,896 of 2,585 | #44 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #387 of 2,338 | #9 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.9% | #811 of 2,388 | #36 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.3% | #232 of 2,534 | #7 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -44.5% | #74 of 1,757 | #3 of 34 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
315
-114 (-27%) vs 2020
-51% since 2010-11, when it was 643
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 315 | 32 | 9.8:1 | 94% (297) |
| 2023-24 | 340 | 31.1 | 10.9:1 | 94% (321) |
| 2022-23 | 364 | 34.9 | 10.4:1 | 93% (337) |
| 2020-21 | 429 | 41 | 10.5:1 | 92% (393) |
| 2017-18 | 568 | 52 | 10.9:1 | 90% (511) |
| 2015-16 | 624 | 51 | 12.2:1 | 83% (520) |
| 2010-11 | 643 | 49 | 13.1:1 | 85% (549) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER.
About PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER
In STATEN ISLAND, New York, PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER is a low-enrollment elementary school. It reported 315 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The school is 29% below the average for elementary schools in New York.
A total of 74 schools make up NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, with 56,577 students enrolled.
Hispanic students are 53% of those enrolled at PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER. The rest of enrollment is 37% Black, 4% White, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Richmond County's population at about 20%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 58%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.8:1. The school has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Federal data show 94% of students (297) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 27 points above the 67% average for public schools in Richmond County.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER lands at F, ahead of 4% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER is in the bottom 10% of New York schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 40.3%. The school's actual rate is 18.7%, 21.6 points lower.
Richmond County is the school's county. There, 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%. PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER shares Richmond County with 87 other public schools.
PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER is about 0.6 miles from IS 27 ANNING S PRALL, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER is 8th of 8 on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 315, down from 429 in 2020-21.
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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
- IS 27 ANNING S PRALL0.6 mi · 836
- PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)0.6 mi · 464
- PS 45 JOHN TYLER0.8 mi · 751
- PS 20 PORT RICHMOND0.8 mi · 277
- IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS1.0 mi · 871
- PS 3731.2 mi · 710
Frequently asked questions
About PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIERHow many students attend PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER?
PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER enrolls approximately 315 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER serve?
PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER is approximately 9.8:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER?
At PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER, the student body is approximately 4% White, 53% Hispanic, 37% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER in?
PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31.
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