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Enrollment
599
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302257
PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN
55 MERRILL AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10314 · (718) 761-3325 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL599 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.0:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
419 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 | 26 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (117).
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
58.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 52.0% |
% 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
47.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 60 ALICE AUSTEN
PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN's state test result (47.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN this school | 599 | 69.9% | 47.3% |
| PS 139 REGO PARK REGO PARK | 571 | 71.3% | 63.8% |
| PS 209 MARGARET MEAD BROOKLYN | 702 | 78.6% | 57.5% |
| STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 688 | 76.9% | 51.1% |
| PS 215 MORRIS H WEISS BROOKLYN | 686 | 77.3% | 55.7% |
| PS 164 QUEENS VALLEY FLUSHING | 527 | 68.9% | 59.8% |
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 60 ALICE AUSTEN ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #1,276 of 2,335 | #36 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,481 of 2,342 ▼ 269 | #40 of 53 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,020 of 2,343 ▲ 122 | #34 of 53 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 599 | #464 of 2,585 | #23 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #1,265 of 2,338 | #25 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #260 of 2,388 | #12 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.9% | #984 of 2,534 | #29 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.5% | #256 of 1,757 | #7 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
599
-159 (-21%) vs 2020
-36% since 2010-11, when it was 931
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 599 | 49.9 | 12.0:1 | 70% (419) |
| 2023-24 | 631 | 48.8 | 12.9:1 | 71% (450) |
| 2022-23 | 628 | 51 | 12.3:1 | 67% (422) |
| 2020-21 | 758 | 56 | 13.5:1 | 65% (496) |
| 2017-18 | 875 | 62 | 14.1:1 | 58% (508) |
| 2015-16 | 897 | 65 | 13.8:1 | 58% (523) |
| 2010-11 | 931 | 69 | 13.5:1 | 54% (502) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN.
About PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN
This page covers PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN, a mid-sized elementary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York. The school has 599 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 is the district for PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN. It has 74 schools and 56,577 students.
The largest group at PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN is White students, at 44%. The remaining students are 24% Hispanic, 23% Asian, 6% Black, and 2% multiracial. Census figures show Richmond County is about 60% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 69%.
For every teacher at PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN, there are about 12.0 students; the school has 49.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 70%. The average for public schools in Richmond County is similar, at 67%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN outscored 49%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN would be expected to post about 49.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 47.3%.
Looking at the county, Richmond County, median household income comes to about $98,333, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county has 88 public schools and about 62,254 students.
HELLENIC CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL - STATEN ISLAND sits about 0.2 miles from PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN ranks 4th on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN enrolled 758 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 599. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.5:1 to 12.0:1.
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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
- HELLENIC CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL - STATEN ISLAND0.2 mi · 474
- STATEN ISLAND SCHOOL OF CIVIC LEADERSHIP0.7 mi · 843
- JOHN W LAVELLE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 884
- NEW VENTURES CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 134
- RICHMOND PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 365
- EARLY COLLEGE CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 192
Frequently asked questions
About PS 60 ALICE AUSTENHow many students attend PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN?
PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN enrolls approximately 599 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN serve?
PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN?
Approximately 12.0:1 students per teacher at PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN.
How diverse is PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN?
PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN reports a student body of 44% White, 24% Hispanic, 6% Black, 23% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN?
PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 in Richmond County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.