PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON

PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31. Current enrollment sits at 627 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 42% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 runs 74 schools in total, collectively educating 56,577 students. PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON lists that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 34% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 76% of students at PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Richmond County's rate of about 67%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 47.1%; PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON posts 68.0%, +20.9 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Richmond County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $98,333 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Richmond County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students), of which PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON is one.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH BEACH PSYCHIATRIC CENTER, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 49.5%.

PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 20%: 524 students in 2018 compared to 627 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 61% to 39%. Class-load math has rose: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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