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Enrollment
627
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302229
PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON
450 BUEL AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10305 · (718) 351-5454 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL627 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% 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.
- ABeats 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
16.2:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
476 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 | 67 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
69%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
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 77.0% |
% 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
68.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% 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 21 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 52 JOHN C THOMPSON
PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON's state test result (68.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON this school | 627 | 75.9% | 68.0% |
| PS 69 DANIEL D TOMPKINS STATEN ISLAND | 674 | 72.7% | 52.4% |
| STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 688 | 76.9% | 51.1% |
| PS 215 MORRIS H WEISS BROOKLYN | 686 | 77.3% | 55.7% |
| PS 127 MCKINLEY PARK BROOKLYN | 667 | 74.1% | 76.0% |
| PS 209 MARGARET MEAD BROOKLYN | 702 | 78.6% | 57.5% |
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 52 JOHN C THOMPSON ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #454 of 2,335 | #18 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #403 of 2,342 ▼ 40 | #15 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #517 of 2,343 ▼ 126 | #23 of 53 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 627 | #398 of 2,585 | #21 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #2,180 of 2,338 | #49 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.9% | #268 of 2,388 | #14 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.9% | #870 of 2,534 | #24 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.7% | #139 of 606 | #4 of 15 |
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
627
+31 (+5%) vs 2020
-4% since 2010-11, when it was 651
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 627 | 38.8 | 16.2:1 | 76% (476) |
| 2023-24 | 616 | 39 | 15.8:1 | 69% (424) |
| 2022-23 | 604 | 47.4 | 12.8:1 | 70% (420) |
| 2020-21 | 596 | 41 | 14.5:1 | 69% (411) |
| 2017-18 | 524 | 39 | 13.4:1 | 65% (341) |
| 2015-16 | 508 | 40 | 12.7:1 | 60% (307) |
| 2010-11 | 651 | 55 | 11.8:1 | 59% (382) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON.
About PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON
PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in STATEN ISLAND, New York. It serves 627 students in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 is made up of 74 schools with 56,577 students in all.
White students are the largest group at PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON, with 39% of enrollment. Other reported shares: 34% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 2% multiracial. Richmond County's residents are about 60% White, 20 points above the school's share. PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON has a diversity index of 69%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 38.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON was 16.2:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 76%. The average for public schools in Richmond County is 67%.
PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON is graded A by allk12, scoring above 87% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After accounting for student poverty, PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON is in the top 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 68.0% is 20.9 points above the 47.1% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
In the county around the school, Richmond County, median household income is about $98,333, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. A total of 88 public schools operate in Richmond County, serving about 62,254 students.
Of nearby public schools, SOUTH BEACH PSYCHIATRIC CENTER is the closest, at about 0.5 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 68.0% is above the 49.5% average for nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students grew from 596 to 627 over 4 years. The school's ratio rose from 14.5:1 to 16.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
- SOUTH BEACH PSYCHIATRIC CENTER0.5 mi · 6
- STATEN ISLAND HEBREW PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL0.5 mi · 202
- IS 2 GEORGE L EGBERT0.7 mi · 980
- PS 11 THOMAS DONGAN SCHOOL0.8 mi · 282
- PS 38 GEORGE CROMWELL0.8 mi · 354
- PS 46 ALBERT V MANISCALCO0.9 mi · 171
Frequently asked questions
About PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSONHow large is PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON?
PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON enrolls approximately 627 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON serve?
PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON?
Approximately 16.2:1 students per teacher at PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON.
How diverse is PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON?
PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON reports a student body of 39% White, 19% Hispanic, 5% Black, 34% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON public or private?
PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON 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.