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Enrollment
694
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302149
PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE)
232 BARLOW AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10308 · (718) 984-1688 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL694 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% 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
15.7:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
356 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 | 64 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 119 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
64%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
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 77.0% | 79.0% |
% 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
72.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE)
PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (72.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) this school | 694 | 51.3% | 72.2% |
| BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 806 | 52.0% | 77.6% |
| PS 8 SHIRLEE SOLOMON STATEN ISLAND | 542 | 49.4% | 89.8% |
| PS 4 MAURICE WOLLIN STATEN ISLAND | 862 | 47.8% | 61.3% |
| PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON STATEN ISLAND | 750 | 55.7% | 82.3% |
| PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD JAMAICA | 519 | 52.6% | 53.8% |
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 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.2% | #325 of 2,335 | #13 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #526 of 2,342 ▼ 205 | #20 of 53 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #397 of 2,343 ▼ 255 | #19 of 53 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 694 | #277 of 2,585 | #15 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #2,121 of 2,338 | #47 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #535 of 2,388 | #26 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.3% | #1,370 of 2,534 | #41 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.8% | #470 of 606 | #13 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
694
+52 (+8%) vs 2020
-18% since 2010-11, when it was 844
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 694 | 44.3 | 15.7:1 | 51% (356) |
| 2023-24 | 656 | 36.2 | 18.1:1 | 50% (329) |
| 2022-23 | 662 | 36.6 | 18.1:1 | 43% (286) |
| 2020-21 | 642 | 41 | 15.7:1 | 34% (221) |
| 2017-18 | 675 | 45 | 15.0:1 | 33% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 690 | 41 | 16.8:1 | 33% (227) |
| 2010-11 | 844 | 55 | 15.3:1 | 37% (310) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE).
About PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE)
Federal records list PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) as an elementary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York. The school reports 694 students in pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students.
PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) is run by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, whose 74 schools enroll 56,577 students.
A majority of students at PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE), 52%, are White. Other students are 26% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Richmond County residents are about 60% White. PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) has a diversity index of 64%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 44.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.7:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. The school's lunch program data list 51% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Richmond County, the average is 67%.
The allk12 Grade for PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) is A. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 89% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 72.2% and a predicted 56.1%.
Federal survey data for Richmond County show that median household income is 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%. A total of 88 public schools operate in Richmond County, serving about 62,254 students.
The shortest distance from PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to DAVID MARQUIS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE). A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) ranks 6th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students climbed from 642 to 694 over 4 years.
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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
- DAVID MARQUIS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)0.4 mi · 556
- PS 8 SHIRLEE SOLOMON0.8 mi · 542
- PS 42 ELTINGVILLE0.9 mi · 995
- IS 24 MYRA S BARNES1.0 mi · 1,314
- BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)1.0 mi · 806
- PS 23 RICHMONDTOWN1.5 mi · 608
Frequently asked questions
About PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE)What is the total enrollment at PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE)?
PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 694 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) have?
PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
How diverse is PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE)?
PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) reports a student body of 52% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 26% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) public or private?
PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.