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Enrollment
464
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302102
PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)
780 POST AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10310 · (718) 442-3860 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL464 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 41% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
435 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 36 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
42%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
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +25.0pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 25 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
39.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)
PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (39.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) this school | 464 | 93.8% | 39.6% |
| CARDINAL MCCLOSKEY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 456 | 94.1% | 45.0% |
| D'YOUVILLE-PORTER CAMPUS BUFFALO | 521 | 94.0% | 10.9% |
| BRONX ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 428 | 90.7% | 41.1% |
| PS 114 LUIS LLORENS TORRES SCHOOL BRONX | 458 | 97.8% | 22.5% |
| PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA BRONX | 496 | 96.0% | 35.1% |
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 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #1,640 of 2,335 | #40 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,313 of 2,342 ▲ 389 | #37 of 53 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,246 of 2,343 ▲ 643 | #40 of 53 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 464 | #1,002 of 2,585 | #31 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #1,355 of 2,338 | #26 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.6% | #1,547 of 2,388 | #50 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.8% | #265 of 2,534 | #8 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.9% | #547 of 1,757 | #11 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
464
-66 (-12%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 638
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 464 | 38 | 12.2:1 | 94% (435) |
| 2023-24 | 433 | 43.7 | 9.9:1 | 92% (400) |
| 2022-23 | 454 | 41.6 | 10.9:1 | 90% (409) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 47 | 11.3:1 | 84% (445) |
| 2017-18 | 594 | 46 | 12.9:1 | 85% (502) |
| 2015-16 | 662 | 43 | 15.4:1 | 71% (472) |
| 2010-11 | 638 | 44 | 14.5:1 | 85% (541) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE).
About PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)
PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) is a medium-sized elementary school in New York, located in STATEN ISLAND. The school enrolls 464 students, from pre-K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, which runs PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE), has 74 schools and 56,577 students.
A majority of students at PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE), 75%, are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 14% Black, 5% White, and 5% Asian. Richmond County's residents are about 20% Hispanic, 55 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 42%.
The teaching staff at PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) is 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.2:1. Elementary schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 12.8:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 94%. That rate is above the 67% average among public schools in Richmond County.
The allk12 Grade for PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) is C+. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 41% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 39.6% actual against 40.5% predicted.
Within Richmond County, median household income is about $98,333, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Richmond County number 88 and enroll about 62,254.
The closest other public school is PS 20 PORT RICHMOND, about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 43.4% on proficiency, and PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) is below that at 39.6%.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) went from 530 students to 464.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
- PS 20 PORT RICHMOND0.5 mi · 277
- IS 27 ANNING S PRALL0.5 mi · 836
- PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER0.6 mi · 315
- PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,696
- PORT RICHMOND SCHOOL FOR VISIONARY LEARNING0.9 mi · 377
- PS 30 WESTERLEIGH0.9 mi · 689
Frequently asked questions
About PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)How large is PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)?
PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 464 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) is approximately 12.2:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)?
At PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE), the student body is approximately 5% White, 75% Hispanic, 14% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) in?
PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.