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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the PS 22 GRANITEVILLE administration to hear?
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Enrollment
717
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302113
PS 22 GRANITEVILLE
1860 FOREST AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10303 · (718) 442-2219 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL717 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% 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.
- B-Beats 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
10.0:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
601 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 | 59 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 121 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 130 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 119 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (119).
Student demographics
55%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
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
46.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
39.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 22 GRANITEVILLE
PS 22 GRANITEVILLE's state test result (39.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 22 GRANITEVILLE this school | 717 | 83.8% | 39.8% |
| PS 72 DR WILLIAM DORNEY BRONX | 598 | 83.8% | 40.8% |
| PS 171 PATRICK HENRY NEW YORK | 738 | 78.9% | 85.5% |
| ELMWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONSEY | 598 | 89.1% | 19.2% |
| GRAND CONCOURSE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 698 | 76.9% | 65.5% |
| WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 746 | 75.9% | 37.5% |
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 22 GRANITEVILLE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #1,632 of 2,335 | #39 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,601 of 2,342 ▼ 4 | #41 of 53 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,364 of 2,343 ▲ 147 | #41 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 717 | #249 of 2,585 | #13 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #436 of 2,338 | #11 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #1,000 of 2,388 | #39 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.8% | #653 of 2,534 | #17 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.9% | #407 of 1,757 | #10 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
717
-129 (-15%) vs 2020
-36% since 2010-11, when it was 1,129
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 717 | 71.7 | 10.0:1 | 84% (601) |
| 2023-24 | 768 | 65.5 | 11.7:1 | 85% (653) |
| 2022-23 | 786 | 63.4 | 12.4:1 | 83% (654) |
| 2020-21 | 846 | 70 | 12.1:1 | 86% (727) |
| 2017-18 | 967 | 68 | 14.2:1 | 88% (850) |
| 2015-16 | 1,046 | 64 | 16.3:1 | 88% (919) |
| 2010-11 | 1,129 | 78 | 14.5:1 | 83% (942) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 22 GRANITEVILLE.
About PS 22 GRANITEVILLE
PS 22 GRANITEVILLE is a large elementary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York. It educates 717 students in pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 62% above the 443 average for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 has 74 schools; together they serve 56,577 students.
By race and ethnicity, PS 22 GRANITEVILLE is 64% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 18% Black, 8% Asian, 7% White, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Richmond County is about 20% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 22 GRANITEVILLE belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 55%.
PS 22 GRANITEVILLE counts 71.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 10.0 students for each one. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 84%. It compares with 67% for public schools in Richmond County.
allk12 grades PS 22 GRANITEVILLE a C+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, PS 22 GRANITEVILLE's results are 4.4 points below predicted: 39.8% against 44.2%.
County data help place the school in context: in Richmond County, median household income is about $98,333, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. PS 22 GRANITEVILLE is among the 88 public schools in Richmond County.
The closest other public school is IS 51 EDWIN MARKHAM, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 22 GRANITEVILLE ranks 7th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 39.8% against a local average of 49.4%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 846 to 717. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 10.0:1, from 12.1:1.
Discussion on this page can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. 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
- IS 51 EDWIN MARKHAM0.4 mi · 1,072
- NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 803
- PORT RICHMOND SCHOOL FOR VISIONARY LEARNING0.4 mi · 377
- PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN0.5 mi · 521
- PS 21 MARGARET EMERY-ELM PARK0.5 mi · 380
- STATEN ISLAND SCHOOL OF CIVIC LEADERSHIP0.8 mi · 843
Frequently asked questions
About PS 22 GRANITEVILLEHow many students attend PS 22 GRANITEVILLE?
PS 22 GRANITEVILLE enrolls approximately 717 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 22 GRANITEVILLE serve?
PS 22 GRANITEVILLE serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 22 GRANITEVILLE?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 22 GRANITEVILLE is approximately 10.0:1 (72 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 22 GRANITEVILLE?
Student demographics at PS 22 GRANITEVILLE are roughly 7% White, 64% Hispanic, 18% Black, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is PS 22 GRANITEVILLE in?
PS 22 GRANITEVILLE 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.