Enrollment
272
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302127
PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE)
4108 VICTORY BLVD, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10314 · (718) 698-1530 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL272 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
167 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 | 18 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (36) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
69%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
78.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
84.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 84.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 82.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in New York's top 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 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE)
PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (73.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) this school | 272 | 61.4% | 73.4% |
| PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH BROOKLYN | 293 | 60.4% | 67.2% |
| NAPLES STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 311 | 55.6% | 90.5% |
| STATEN ISLAND HEBREW PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 202 | 65.3% | 68.0% |
| PS 264 BAY RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS BROOKLYN | 379 | 66.2% | 67.4% |
| BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL HICKSVILLE | 263 | 55.1% | 64.9% |
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 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #295 of 2,335 | #11 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #244 of 2,342 ▲ 2 | #9 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #294 of 2,343 ▲ 23 | #15 of 53 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 272 | #2,134 of 2,585 | #48 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #388 of 2,338 | #10 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #243 of 2,388 | #11 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.4% | #1,133 of 2,534 | #34 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.0% | #464 of 606 | #12 of 15 |
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
272
-12 (-4%) vs 2020
+66% since 2010-11, when it was 164
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 | 272 | 27.7 | 9.8:1 | 61% (167) |
| 2023-24 | 267 | 24 | 11.1:1 | 60% (161) |
| 2022-23 | 270 | 26 | 10.4:1 | 56% (150) |
| 2020-21 | 284 | 27 | 10.5:1 | 56% (158) |
| 2017-18 | 264 | 21 | 12.6:1 | 49% (129) |
| 2015-16 | 238 | 17 | 14.0:1 | 51% (122) |
| 2010-11 | 164 | 15 | 10.9:1 | 61% (100) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE).
About PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE)
PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) is a public low-enrollment elementary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 272 students. That puts enrollment 39% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
The district for PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) is NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, with 74 schools and 56,577 students.
Of every 100 students at PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE), about 37 are White, the largest group. After that, the student body is 33% Hispanic, 23% Asian, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Richmond County is about 60% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) is 9.8:1, based on 27.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Lunch program data show 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) outscored 90%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 73.4%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New York are predicted to post 52.4%, so the school is 21.0 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
In the surrounding county, Richmond County, median household income comes to about $98,333, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county has 88 public schools and about 62,254 students.
Measured in a straight line, EARLY COLLEGE CHARTER SCHOOL is about 1.0 miles from PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE). Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
In 2020-21, PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) enrolled 284 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 272.
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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
- EARLY COLLEGE CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 192
- JOHN W LAVELLE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 884
- NEW VENTURES CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 134
- RICHMOND PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 365
- IS 72 ROCCO LAURIE1.7 mi · 1,532
- SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL1.7 mi · 720
Frequently asked questions
About PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE)What is the total enrollment at PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE)?
PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 272 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) have?
PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE)?
At PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE), the student body is approximately 37% White, 33% Hispanic, 3% Black, 23% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) public or private?
PS 26 CARTERET SCHOOL (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31.
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