Enrollment
342
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302146
PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS
55 LAYTON AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301 · (718) 273-3500 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL342 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 32% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test 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
9.8:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
337 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 | 48 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
57%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
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
38.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS
PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS's state test result (34.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS this school | 342 | 98.5% | 34.5% |
| BROOKLYN GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 355 | 96.6% | 42.0% |
| PS 13 ROBERTO CLEMENTE BROOKLYN | 331 | 95.2% | 51.9% |
| PS 298 DR BETTY SHABAZZ BROOKLYN | 339 | 97.9% | 28.3% |
| PS 111 SETON FALLS BRONX | 397 | 94.2% | 29.5% |
| PS 21 PHILIP H SHERIDAN BRONX | 406 | 94.3% | 48.3% |
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 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #1,858 of 2,335 | #43 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,906 of 2,342 ▼ 110 | #45 of 53 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,595 of 2,343 ▲ 17 | #43 of 53 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 342 | #1,714 of 2,585 | #41 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #362 of 2,338 | #7 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.3% | #856 of 2,388 | #37 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.5% | #26 of 2,534 | #1 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.8% | #975 of 1,757 | #18 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
342
-24 (-7%) vs 2020
-36% since 2010-11, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 342 | 35 | 9.8:1 | 99% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 336 | 33.6 | 10.0:1 | 98% (328) |
| 2022-23 | 332 | 39 | 8.5:1 | 95% (317) |
| 2020-21 | 366 | 37 | 9.9:1 | 93% (341) |
| 2017-18 | 392 | 36 | 10.9:1 | 91% (355) |
| 2015-16 | 467 | 34 | 13.7:1 | 83% (386) |
| 2010-11 | 537 | 45 | 11.9:1 | 93% (500) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS.
About PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS
PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS is a low-enrollment elementary school in New York, located in STATEN ISLAND. The school has 342 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 23% lower.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, which runs PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS, has 74 schools and 56,577 students.
Black students are 54% of those enrolled at PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS. The next largest groups are 36% Hispanic, 4% White, and 4% multiracial. In Richmond County overall, about 10% of residents are Black. A diversity index of 57% means there is a 57% chance two randomly chosen students at PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS are from different groups.
There are 35 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 9.8:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Of all students at PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS, 99% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Richmond County, the average eligibility rate is 67%.
PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 32% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (34.5%) and its predicted rate (38.8%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
The county, Richmond County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $98,333 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Richmond County has 88 public schools with about 62,254 students, including PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS ranks 6th of 8 on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school shrank from 366 students in 2020-21 to 342 in 2024-25.
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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
- CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 2,439
- RALPH R MCKEE CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 626
- FORT HILL COLLABORATIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 182
- PS 16 JOHN J DRISCOLL0.3 mi · 377
- PS 74 FUTURE LEADERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 255
- HARBOR VIEW SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 256
Frequently asked questions
About PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVISHow many students attend PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS?
PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS enrolls approximately 342 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS?
Approximately 9.8:1 students per teacher at PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS.
How diverse is PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS?
PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS reports a student body of 4% White, 36% Hispanic, 54% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS?
PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 in Richmond County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.