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Enrollment
521
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302196
PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN
80 MAPLE PKWY, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10303 · (718) 442-0433 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL521 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
11.7:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
484 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 | 61 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
60%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
21.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.0% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 16.0% | 21.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 44 THOMAS C BROWN
PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN's state test result (17.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN this school | 521 | 92.9% | 17.9% |
| DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM NEW YORK | 554 | 94.6% | 65.9% |
| PS 78 STATEN ISLAND | 454 | 94.5% | 27.1% |
| PS 41 GUN HILL ROAD BRONX | 593 | 94.9% | 30.6% |
| GIRLS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE BRONX II BRONX | 492 | 94.7% | 64.5% |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM NEW YORK | 623 | 92.9% | 66.0% |
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 44 THOMAS C BROWN ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #2,268 of 2,335 | #53 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #2,250 of 2,342 ▼ 48 | #53 of 53 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #2,269 of 2,343 ▼ 28 | #52 of 53 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 521 | #730 of 2,585 | #27 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #1,129 of 2,338 | #23 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #721 of 2,388 | #32 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.9% | #301 of 2,534 | #10 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.9% | #119 of 1,757 | #4 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
521
-110 (-17%) vs 2020
-41% since 2010-11, when it was 884
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 521 | 44.7 | 11.7:1 | 93% (484) |
| 2023-24 | 537 | 43.5 | 12.3:1 | 93% (499) |
| 2022-23 | 547 | 41 | 13.3:1 | 91% (500) |
| 2020-21 | 631 | 51 | 12.4:1 | 94% (591) |
| 2017-18 | 867 | 77 | 11.3:1 | 95% (820) |
| 2015-16 | 982 | 71 | 13.8:1 | 94% (920) |
| 2010-11 | 884 | 70 | 12.6:1 | 90% (800) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN.
About PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN
Students in STATEN ISLAND, New York, attend PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN, a mid-sized elementary school. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 521 students on the rolls.
Across its 74 schools, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 enrolls 56,577 students. PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN is one of those schools.
At PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN, 51% of students are Hispanic. The remaining students are 37% Black, 5% White, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. Census figures show Richmond County is about 20% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 60%.
There are 44.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN, giving a ratio of 11.7:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. By family income, 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Richmond County average 67%.
PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 3% of New York public elementary schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 40.8%. PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN posts 17.9%, 22.9 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Richmond County, the median household earns about $98,333 a year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Richmond County has 88 public schools with about 62,254 students, including PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN.
PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN's nearest public school is PS 22 GRANITEVILLE (about 0.5 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN is 9th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
In the federal locale system, PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 631 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 521 by 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 22 GRANITEVILLE0.5 mi · 717
- NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 803
- PS 21 MARGARET EMERY-ELM PARK0.6 mi · 380
- PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,696
- STATEN ISLAND SCHOOL OF CIVIC LEADERSHIP0.9 mi · 843
- IS 51 EDWIN MARKHAM0.9 mi · 1,072
Frequently asked questions
About PS 44 THOMAS C BROWNHow many students attend PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN?
PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN enrolls approximately 521 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN serve?
PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN is approximately 11.7:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN?
At PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN, the student body is approximately 5% White, 51% Hispanic, 37% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN in?
PS 44 THOMAS C BROWN 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.