PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN

Set in STATEN ISLAND, New York, PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN is an average-sized K-5 school, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31. It serves 599 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN sits 35% above that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 runs 74 schools in total, collectively educating 56,577 students. PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic, 23% Asian, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 60% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 70% of students at PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.3%; this one delivers 47.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Richmond County) logs that median household income runs about $98,333, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Richmond County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students), of which PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN is one.

The closest other public school is HELLENIC CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL - STATEN ISLAND, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN has fell 32%, going from 875 students in 2018 to 599 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 55% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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