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Enrollment
579
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302137
PS 29 BARDWELL
1581 VICTORY BLVD, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10314 · (718) 556-4400 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL579 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
13.7:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
326 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 | 17 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
71%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
79.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +23.0pp since 2023
Math
72.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 62.0% |
% 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
63.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 29 BARDWELL
PS 29 BARDWELL's state test result (63.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 29 BARDWELL this school | 579 | 56.3% | 63.1% |
| PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD JAMAICA | 519 | 52.6% | 53.8% |
| PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 694 | 51.3% | 72.2% |
| PS 175 LYNN GROSS DISCOVERY SCHOOL (THE) REGO PARK | 710 | 63.0% | 60.3% |
| PS 8 SHIRLEE SOLOMON STATEN ISLAND | 542 | 49.4% | 89.8% |
| PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON STATEN ISLAND | 750 | 55.7% | 82.3% |
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 29 BARDWELL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.1% | #633 of 2,335 | #24 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #617 of 2,342 ▲ 221 | #22 of 53 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #265 of 2,343 ▲ 370 | #12 of 53 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 579 | #536 of 2,585 | #24 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #1,810 of 2,338 | #37 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.8% | #187 of 2,388 | #4 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.3% | #1,234 of 2,534 | #36 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #1,161 of 1,757 | #22 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
579
-58 (-9%) vs 2020
-22% since 2010-11, when it was 740
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 579 | 42.2 | 13.7:1 | 56% (326) |
| 2023-24 | 583 | 40.1 | 14.6:1 | 60% (347) |
| 2022-23 | 594 | 39.7 | 15.0:1 | 57% (339) |
| 2020-21 | 637 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 58% (370) |
| 2017-18 | 642 | 39 | 16.4:1 | 53% (340) |
| 2015-16 | 702 | 40 | 17.6:1 | 47% (330) |
| 2010-11 | 740 | 41 | 18.1:1 | 43% (320) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 29 BARDWELL.
About PS 29 BARDWELL
PS 29 BARDWELL, a mid-sized elementary school, is located in STATEN ISLAND, New York. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 579 students. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 31% above that mark.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, PS 29 BARDWELL is one of 74 schools. The district enrolls 56,577 students.
The biggest share of students at PS 29 BARDWELL, 39%, is White. Next come 27% Hispanic, 26% Asian, 5% Black, and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 60% White among all Richmond County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 71%.
PS 29 BARDWELL has 42.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.7:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 0.9 fewer students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 56% at PS 29 BARDWELL. Public schools in Richmond County average 67%.
PS 29 BARDWELL earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 75% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 54.3% for PS 29 BARDWELL. The school posts 63.1%, 8.8 points above the prediction.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Richmond County show that median household income comes to about $98,333, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Richmond County counts 88 public schools with about 62,254 students.
Of the public schools around it, PS 29 BARDWELL is closest to MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE), about 0.7 miles away. PS 29 BARDWELL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 29 BARDWELL's average proficiency of 63.1% compares with 59.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES describes the area around PS 29 BARDWELL as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 9% across 4 years, from 637 in 2020-21 to 579 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.5:1 to 13.7:1.
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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
- MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)0.7 mi · 1,423
- RICHARD H HUNGERFORD SCHOOL (THE)0.7 mi · 516
- BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 263
- PS 35 CLOVE VALLEY SCHOOL (THE)0.9 mi · 367
- PS 30 WESTERLEIGH0.9 mi · 689
- IS 27 ANNING S PRALL1.0 mi · 836
Frequently asked questions
About PS 29 BARDWELLHow many students attend PS 29 BARDWELL?
PS 29 BARDWELL enrolls approximately 579 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 29 BARDWELL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 29 BARDWELL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 29 BARDWELL have?
PS 29 BARDWELL employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 29 BARDWELL?
Student demographics at PS 29 BARDWELL are roughly 39% White, 27% Hispanic, 5% Black, 26% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is PS 29 BARDWELL in?
PS 29 BARDWELL 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.