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Enrollment
750
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302220
PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON
200 ADELAIDE AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306 · (718) 987-0396 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL750 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% 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
15.5:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
418 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 | 55 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 100 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 128 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 134 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
66%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
82.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
87.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 87.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 90.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
82.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 28 points, placing it in New York's top 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 50 FRANK HANKINSON
PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON's state test result (82.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON this school | 750 | 55.7% | 82.3% |
| BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 806 | 52.0% | 77.6% |
| PS 175 LYNN GROSS DISCOVERY SCHOOL (THE) REGO PARK | 710 | 63.0% | 60.3% |
| PS 32 GIFFORD SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 694 | 51.3% | 72.2% |
| PS 48 WILLIAM G WILCOX STATEN ISLAND | 964 | 52.2% | 71.5% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST BROOKLYN | 721 | 64.9% | 93.6% |
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 50 FRANK HANKINSON ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.3% | #136 of 2,335 | #5 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #193 of 2,342 ▼ 85 | #7 of 53 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #201 of 2,343 ▼ 84 | #8 of 53 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 750 | #205 of 2,585 | #11 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #2,100 of 2,338 | #45 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #436 of 2,388 | #23 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.7% | #1,252 of 2,534 | #37 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #1,602 of 1,757 | #29 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
750
+52 (+7%) vs 2020
+4% since 2010-11, when it was 720
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 750 | 48.4 | 15.5:1 | 56% (418) |
| 2023-24 | 715 | 48.5 | 14.8:1 | 55% (390) |
| 2022-23 | 739 | 44.4 | 16.7:1 | 51% (376) |
| 2020-21 | 698 | 46 | 15.2:1 | 42% (292) |
| 2017-18 | 773 | 50 | 15.4:1 | 40% (311) |
| 2015-16 | 829 | 55 | 15.1:1 | 33% (270) |
| 2010-11 | 720 | 48 | 15.0:1 | 34% (244) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON.
About PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON
PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON is a high-enrollment elementary school located in STATEN ISLAND, New York. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 750 students. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 69% above that mark.
District-wide, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 has 74 schools and 56,577 students.
No group is above 50% at PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON; the largest is White, at 46%. Other reported shares: 32% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, and 2% Black. Richmond County's residents are about 60% White, 14 points above the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON scores 66%.
Its ratio of 15.5:1 is based on 48.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. In all, 56% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 67% average for public schools in Richmond County.
PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 96% of New York public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON is +27.8 points, in the top 10% of New York. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 82.3%, and the predicted rate is 54.5%.
For Richmond County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $98,333 a year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Richmond County number 88, with about 62,254 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.6 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON ranks 2nd of 8 on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON as City: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 7%.
The PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
- STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,425
- PS 23 RICHMONDTOWN0.7 mi · 608
- BARBARA ESSELBORN SCHOOL (THE)0.9 mi · 806
- NEW DORP HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 3,055
- STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE)1.2 mi · 688
- DAVID MARQUIS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)1.4 mi · 556
Frequently asked questions
About PS 50 FRANK HANKINSONHow many students attend PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON?
PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON enrolls approximately 750 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON?
Approximately 15.5:1 students per teacher at PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON?
At PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON, the student body is approximately 46% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 32% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON public or private?
PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON 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.