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Enrollment
995
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302189
PS 42 ELTINGVILLE
380 GENESEE AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10312 · (718) 984-3800 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL995 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of New York public elementary schools
- A-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
15.4:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
487 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 | 54 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 135 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 145 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 160 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 164 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 160 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 173 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (135) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (173).
Student demographics
58%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
71.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 71 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 62.0% | 74.0% |
% 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
67.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 42 ELTINGVILLE
PS 42 ELTINGVILLE's state test result (67.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 42 ELTINGVILLE this school | 995 | 48.9% | 67.0% |
| PS 122 MAMIE FAY ASTORIA | 1,124 | 49.5% | 80.2% |
| PS 4 MAURICE WOLLIN STATEN ISLAND | 862 | 47.8% | 61.3% |
| PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE STATEN ISLAND | 866 | 45.7% | 63.5% |
| PS 48 WILLIAM G WILCOX STATEN ISLAND | 964 | 52.2% | 71.5% |
| BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 806 | 52.0% | 77.6% |
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 42 ELTINGVILLE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #492 of 2,335 | #21 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #655 of 2,342 ▼ 213 | #26 of 53 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #482 of 2,343 ▼ 27 | #21 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 995 | #46 of 2,585 | #1 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #2,084 of 2,338 | #44 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.5% | #777 of 2,388 | #34 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.9% | #1,442 of 2,534 | #43 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.0% | #1,535 of 1,757 | #27 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
995
-61 (-6%) vs 2020
+1% since 2010-11, when it was 982
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
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 | 995 | 64.7 | 15.4:1 | 49% (487) |
| 2023-24 | 1,002 | 63 | 15.9:1 | 48% (480) |
| 2022-23 | 1,011 | 63.9 | 15.8:1 | 43% (437) |
| 2020-21 | 1,056 | 62 | 17.0:1 | 37% (390) |
| 2017-18 | 1,036 | 69 | 15.0:1 | 37% (381) |
| 2015-16 | 976 | 66 | 14.8:1 | 35% (337) |
| 2010-11 | 982 | 67 | 14.7:1 | 37% (359) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 42 ELTINGVILLE.
About PS 42 ELTINGVILLE
PS 42 ELTINGVILLE is a high-enrollment elementary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York. It serves 995 students in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students.
PS 42 ELTINGVILLE is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, where 74 schools serve 56,577 students.
At PS 42 ELTINGVILLE, White students make up 58% of the student body. The school is also 23% Asian and 16% Hispanic. For comparison, Richmond County is about 60% White. The school's diversity index is 58%, meaning two students picked at random have a 58% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The ratio of students to teachers is 15.4:1, with 64.7 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That is 2.5 students per teacher above the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 49%. That is 18 points below the 67% average for public schools in Richmond County.
allk12 grades PS 42 ELTINGVILLE an A-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, PS 42 ELTINGVILLE is 10.0 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
According to the American Community Survey, in Richmond County, the median household income is $98,333, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. PS 42 ELTINGVILLE is one of 88 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE), is about 0.9 miles from PS 42 ELTINGVILLE. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, PS 42 ELTINGVILLE is 6th on average proficiency.
PS 42 ELTINGVILLE falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 61 fewer students in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 17.0:1 in 2020-21, and 15.4:1 in 2024-25.
The PS 42 ELTINGVILLE community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
- PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE)0.9 mi · 694
- PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE0.9 mi · 866
- PS 8 SHIRLEE SOLOMON1.0 mi · 542
- PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM1.1 mi · 512
- DAVID MARQUIS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)1.3 mi · 556
- IS 24 MYRA S BARNES1.3 mi · 1,314
Frequently asked questions
About PS 42 ELTINGVILLEWhat is the total enrollment at PS 42 ELTINGVILLE?
PS 42 ELTINGVILLE enrolls approximately 995 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 42 ELTINGVILLE serve?
PS 42 ELTINGVILLE serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 42 ELTINGVILLE have?
PS 42 ELTINGVILLE employs 65 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 42 ELTINGVILLE?
Student demographics at PS 42 ELTINGVILLE are roughly 58% White, 16% Hispanic, 1% Black, 23% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 42 ELTINGVILLE in?
PS 42 ELTINGVILLE 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.