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Enrollment
538
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2·NCES 360007702177
PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS
320 E 20TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10003 · (212) 475-5500 · New York County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL538 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.
- 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
14.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
84 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 100 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
86.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
88.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.0% | 88.0% |
| 2023-24 | 78.0% | 86.0% |
% 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
80.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS
PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS's state test result (80.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS this school | 538 | 15.6% | 80.4% |
| PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON NEW YORK | 529 | 14.6% | 85.0% |
| PS 166 RICHARD ROGERS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & SCIENCE (THE) NEW YORK | 607 | 19.4% | 90.3% |
| WILLIAM O SCHAEFER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAPPAN | 559 | 15.9% | N/A |
| ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MASSAPEQUA | 536 | 16.6% | 65.8% |
| PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SMITHTOWN | 498 | 14.1% | 66.8% |
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 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.4% | #161 of 2,335 | #33 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #163 of 2,342 ▲ 6 | #30 of 151 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #130 of 2,343 ▼ 4 | #32 of 151 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 538 | #676 of 2,585 | #28 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #2,027 of 2,338 | #99 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.3% | #545 of 2,388 | #41 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.6% | #2,331 of 2,534 | #144 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.8% | #581 of 1,757 | #70 of 114 |
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
538
-124 (-19%) vs 2020
-9% since 2010-11, when it was 589
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 538 | 36 | 14.9:1 | 16% (84) |
| 2023-24 | 537 | 37 | 14.5:1 | 18% (99) |
| 2022-23 | 577 | 39 | 14.8:1 | 16% (93) |
| 2020-21 | 662 | 39 | 17.0:1 | 13% (84) |
| 2017-18 | 679 | 41 | 16.6:1 | 10% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 630 | 36 | 17.5:1 | 8% (52) |
| 2010-11 | 589 | 43 | 13.7:1 | 15% (87) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS.
About PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS
PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS operates as a mid-sized elementary school in NEW YORK, New York. The school has 538 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 21% higher.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS is one of 119 schools. The district enrolls 54,599 students.
The share of White students at PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS is 56%, a majority. The school is also 16% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 11% Asian, and 4% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 63%.
With 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.9:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS, 16% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in New York County average 70%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS outscored 90%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 80.4% and a predicted 69.3%.
Looking at the county, New York County, the median household earns about $103,931 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 64%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. New York County has 358 public schools with about 152,104 students, including PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS.
Of the public schools around it, PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS is closest to MS 255 SALK SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS ranks 4th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 80.4% against a local average of 73.3%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 19% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio dropped from 17.0:1 to 14.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- ART AND DESIGN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,485 students
- HIGH SCHOOL OF FASHION INDUSTRIES (THE)High · 1,455 students
- JHS 104 SIMON BARUCHMiddle · 1,023 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESHigh · 1,007 students
Other schools in NEW YORK
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICSHigh · 1,657 students
- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 1Combined · 1,520 students
Nearby schools
- MS 255 SALK SCHOOL OF SCIENCE0.0 mi · 378
- JHS 104 SIMON BARUCH0.0 mi · 1,023
- 47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE)0.2 mi · 172
- AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE & ENGLISH SECONDARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 147
- PS 2260.2 mi · 274
- INSTITUTE FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION0.2 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENSHow many students attend PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS?
PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS enrolls approximately 538 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS.
How diverse is PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS?
PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS reports a student body of 56% White, 16% Hispanic, 4% Black, 11% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS?
PS 40 AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 in New York County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.