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Enrollment
512
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302239
PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM
54 OSBORNE ST, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10312 · (718) 697-5200 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL512 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% 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
12.4:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
225 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 | 35 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
45%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
77.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
82.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 82.0% |
| 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 55 HENRY M BOEHM
PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM this school | 512 | 43.9% | 72.0% |
| KATHLEEN GRIMM SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP STATEN ISLAND | 452 | 39.6% | 73.3% |
| PS 185 WALTER KASSENBROCK BROOKLYN | 577 | 42.3% | 73.2% |
| SMITH ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH SYRACUSE | 553 | 48.3% | 36.6% |
| KARL W SAILE BEAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH SYRACUSE | 537 | 44.1% | 43.5% |
| VEEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 503 | 37.8% | 56.4% |
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 55 HENRY M BOEHM ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #332 of 2,335 | #14 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #298 of 2,342 ▲ 66 | #12 of 53 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #316 of 2,343 ▲ 75 | #17 of 53 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 512 | #769 of 2,585 | #28 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #1,408 of 2,338 | #28 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.2% | #1,417 of 2,388 | #48 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.9% | #1,579 of 2,534 | #46 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #854 of 1,757 | #16 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
512
-40 (-7%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 704
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 512 | 41.4 | 12.4:1 | 44% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 504 | 37.9 | 13.3:1 | 40% (202) |
| 2022-23 | 509 | 51 | 10.0:1 | 42% (213) |
| 2020-21 | 552 | 44 | 12.6:1 | 39% (218) |
| 2017-18 | 602 | 47 | 12.8:1 | 37% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 638 | 46 | 13.9:1 | 33% (209) |
| 2010-11 | 704 | 51 | 13.8:1 | 27% (192) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM.
About PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM
In STATEN ISLAND, New York, part of Richmond County, PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM is an elementary school. It had 512 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5.
PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM is a school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31. The district has 74 schools and 56,577 students.
More than half of enrollment at PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM is White: 72%. Enrollment also includes 14% Hispanic and 12% Asian. The school's White share is 12 points above the 60% share among Richmond County residents. The diversity index for PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM is 45%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 12.4:1 is based on 41.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 44%. For comparison, public schools in Richmond County average 67%.
On the allk12 Grade, PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM lands at A, ahead of 86% of New York public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM is +13.1 points: 72.0% actual, 58.8% predicted.
The school is in Richmond County, where median household income comes to about $98,333, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Richmond County's 88 public schools enroll about 62,254 students and include PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM.
Measured in a straight line, PS 8 SHIRLEE SOLOMON is about 1.0 miles from PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM is behind the 75.2% nearby average, ranking 6th of 9.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 512 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 552.
This page is set up for the PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. 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 8 SHIRLEE SOLOMON1.0 mi · 542
- PS 36 J C DRUMGOOLE1.1 mi · 866
- PS 42 ELTINGVILLE1.1 mi · 995
- IS 24 MYRA S BARNES1.2 mi · 1,314
- PS 5 HUGUENOT1.3 mi · 317
- IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN1.5 mi · 1,177
Frequently asked questions
About PS 55 HENRY M BOEHMWhat is the total enrollment at PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM?
PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM enrolls approximately 512 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM serve?
PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM have?
PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM?
Student demographics at PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM are roughly 72% White, 14% Hispanic, 0% Black, 12% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM in?
PS 55 HENRY M BOEHM 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.