Enrollment
277
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302107
PS 20 PORT RICHMOND
161 PARK AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10302 · (718) 442-4110 · Richmond County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL277 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% 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
8.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
253 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 22 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 61% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
38%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
32.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
25.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 25.0% |
| 2023-24 | 16.0% | 17.0% |
% 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
20.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% 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 20 PORT RICHMOND
PS 20 PORT RICHMOND's state test result (20.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 20 PORT RICHMOND this school | 277 | 91.3% | 20.6% |
| PS 274 KOSCIUSKO BROOKLYN | 286 | 91.3% | 31.6% |
| PS 130 ABRAM STEVENS HEWITT BRONX | 291 | 92.1% | 42.0% |
| PS 161 JUAN PONCE DE LEON SCHOOL BRONX | 303 | 93.1% | 29.4% |
| PS 98 SHORAC KAPPOCK NEW YORK | 288 | 90.3% | 31.9% |
| PS 938 BROOKLYN | 238 | 91.6% | 67.8% |
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 20 PORT RICHMOND ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #2,230 of 2,335 | #51 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #2,186 of 2,342 ▲ 68 | #50 of 53 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,066 of 2,343 ▲ 165 | #49 of 53 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 277 | #2,118 of 2,585 | #47 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #169 of 2,338 | #3 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.6% | #1,680 of 2,388 | #51 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.3% | #354 of 2,534 | #11 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.1% | #127 of 1,757 | #5 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
277
-128 (-32%) vs 2020
-46% since 2010-11, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 9.4:1
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 | 277 | 31 | 8.9:1 | 91% (253) |
| 2023-24 | 298 | 32.6 | 9.1:1 | 95% (284) |
| 2022-23 | 335 | 34.5 | 9.7:1 | 94% (315) |
| 2020-21 | 405 | 43 | 9.4:1 | 94% (380) |
| 2017-18 | 455 | 44 | 10.3:1 | 96% (437) |
| 2015-16 | 490 | 39 | 12.6:1 | 98% (478) |
| 2010-11 | 514 | 36 | 14.3:1 | 92% (474) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 20 PORT RICHMOND.
About PS 20 PORT RICHMOND
PS 20 PORT RICHMOND is a small elementary school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, located in STATEN ISLAND, New York. A total of 277 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 5. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York, enrollment here is 37% lower.
The NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 system has 74 schools and 56,577 students.
At PS 20 PORT RICHMOND, Hispanic students make up 78% of the student body. After that, the student body is 14% Black and 4% White. Census figures show Richmond County is about 20% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 38%, meaning two students picked at random have a 38% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
PS 20 PORT RICHMOND's 31 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 8.9:1. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 91%. That is 24 points above the 67% average for public schools in Richmond County.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 20 PORT RICHMOND receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
PS 20 PORT RICHMOND scores 20.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 20.6% actual versus 41.4% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Richmond County (population about 494,956), the median household income is $98,333, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. In all, Richmond County has 88 public schools and roughly 62,254 students.
The closest public school to PS 20 PORT RICHMOND is PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE), about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, PS 20 PORT RICHMOND ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for PS 20 PORT RICHMOND is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 277, a 32% decrease from 405 in 2020-21.
Questions about school safety, transportation, and start times can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)0.5 mi · 464
- PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,696
- PS 21 MARGARET EMERY-ELM PARK0.7 mi · 380
- PS 18 JOHN G WHITTIER0.8 mi · 315
- NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.9 mi · 803
- IS 27 ANNING S PRALL1.0 mi · 836
Frequently asked questions
About PS 20 PORT RICHMONDWhat is the total enrollment at PS 20 PORT RICHMOND?
PS 20 PORT RICHMOND enrolls approximately 277 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PS 20 PORT RICHMOND serve?
PS 20 PORT RICHMOND serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 20 PORT RICHMOND?
Approximately 8.9:1 students per teacher at PS 20 PORT RICHMOND.
How diverse is PS 20 PORT RICHMOND?
PS 20 PORT RICHMOND reports a student body of 4% White, 78% Hispanic, 14% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 20 PORT RICHMOND in?
PS 20 PORT RICHMOND is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31.
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