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Enrollment
866
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302165
PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE
255 IONIA AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10312 · (718) 984-1422 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL866 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% 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.
- 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
15.6:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
396 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 | 100 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 121 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 122 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 128 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 131 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 130 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 133 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (133).
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
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 64.0% |
% 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
63.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 36 J C DRUMGOOLE
PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE's state test result (63.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE this school | 866 | 45.7% | 63.5% |
| PS 42 ELTINGVILLE STATEN ISLAND | 995 | 48.9% | 67.0% |
| PS 4 MAURICE WOLLIN STATEN ISLAND | 862 | 47.8% | 61.3% |
| PS 122 MAMIE FAY ASTORIA | 1,124 | 49.5% | 80.2% |
| PS 56 LOUIS DESARIO SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 644 | 39.4% | 70.8% |
| PS 30 WESTERLEIGH STATEN ISLAND | 689 | 41.1% | 75.6% |
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 36 J C DRUMGOOLE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #618 of 2,335 | #23 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #654 of 2,342 ▲ 101 | #25 of 53 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #516 of 2,343 ▼ 4 | #22 of 53 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 866 | #95 of 2,585 | #3 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #2,118 of 2,338 | #46 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.9% | #1,012 of 2,388 | #40 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.7% | #1,526 of 2,534 | #45 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.9% | #568 of 606 | #15 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
866
+43 (+5%) vs 2020
-5% since 2010-11, when it was 912
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
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 | 866 | 55.5 | 15.6:1 | 46% (396) |
| 2023-24 | 864 | 59.2 | 14.6:1 | 42% (367) |
| 2022-23 | 842 | 54.1 | 15.6:1 | 43% (363) |
| 2020-21 | 823 | 53 | 15.5:1 | 35% (284) |
| 2017-18 | 858 | 60 | 14.3:1 | 34% (296) |
| 2015-16 | 929 | 56 | 16.6:1 | 33% (303) |
| 2010-11 | 912 | 61 | 14.9:1 | 27% (243) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE.
About PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE
PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE is a large elementary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, (ZIP code 10312). The student body numbers 866 students, from pre-K through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 95% bigger than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 enrolls 56,577 students in 74 schools, including PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE.
White students make up a majority at PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE, at 63%. The remaining shares are 19% Asian, 14% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. The White share in Richmond County as a whole is similar, at about 60%. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE total 55.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.6:1. That is 2.8 students per teacher above the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 46%. Among public schools in Richmond County, the average eligibility rate is 67%.
PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 74% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In New York, PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 63.5% actual against a predicted 58.2%.
Census Bureau estimates for Richmond County show that the median household income is $98,333, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE is one of 88 public schools in the county.
The closest public school to PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE is IS 75 FRANK D PAULO, about 0.8 miles away. PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 75.7% proficiency; PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE posts 63.5%.
NCES describes the area around PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 866 students in 2024-25, 43 more than the 823 it had in 2020-21.
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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
- IS 75 FRANK D PAULO0.8 mi · 1,514
- PS 4 MAURICE WOLLIN0.9 mi · 862
- PS 42 ELTINGVILLE0.9 mi · 995
- PS 5 HUGUENOT0.9 mi · 317
- PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM1.1 mi · 512
- TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 3,750
Frequently asked questions
About PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLEHow many students attend PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE?
PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE enrolls approximately 866 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE.
What is the student diversity at PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE?
Student demographics at PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE are roughly 63% White, 14% Hispanic, 2% Black, 19% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE in?
PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE 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.