Enrollment
340
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010306035
PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)
98 GRANT ST, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301 · (718) 981-5034 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL340 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New York public elementary schools
- B+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
9.7:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
255 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 30 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
63%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
67.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
65.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 65.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
62.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)
PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)'s state test result (62.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) this school | 340 | 75.0% | 62.0% |
| PS 124 SILAS B DUTCHER BROOKLYN | 293 | 79.9% | 29.8% |
| WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 315 | 68.3% | 53.9% |
| CENTRAL PARK EAST II NEW YORK | 407 | 78.1% | 39.5% |
| PS 111 ADOLPH S OCHS NEW YORK | 398 | 76.9% | 48.2% |
| PS 196 TEN EYCK BROOKLYN | 290 | 79.0% | 34.8% |
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 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #674 of 2,335 | #27 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #879 of 2,342 ▼ 189 | #30 of 53 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #637 of 2,343 ▼ 160 | #25 of 53 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 340 | #1,732 of 2,585 | #42 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #345 of 2,338 | #6 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.1% | #555 of 2,388 | #28 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.0% | #896 of 2,534 | #26 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.6% | #593 of 1,757 | #12 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
340
-66 (-16%) vs 2020
+25% since 2010-11, when it was 271
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
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 | 340 | 35.1 | 9.7:1 | 75% (255) |
| 2023-24 | 357 | 32.5 | 11.0:1 | 71% (255) |
| 2022-23 | 382 | 34.4 | 11.1:1 | 70% (266) |
| 2020-21 | 406 | 30 | 13.5:1 | 70% (284) |
| 2017-18 | 428 | 31 | 13.8:1 | 60% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 396 | 29 | 13.7:1 | 59% (235) |
| 2010-11 | 271 | 20 | 13.6:1 | 65% (175) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE).
About PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)
PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) is classified as an elementary school. It is located in STATEN ISLAND, New York. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 340 students on the rolls. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 oversees PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) and 73 other schools, with 56,577 students in total.
More than half of enrollment at PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) is Hispanic: 54%. The remaining shares are 23% Black, 15% White, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Richmond County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 63%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.7:1. The school has 35.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is 3.1 students per teacher. In all, 75% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 78% of New York public elementary schools.
PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)'s actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (62.0%) and its predicted rate (47.4%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
Richmond County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $98,333, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Richmond County's 88 public schools enroll about 62,254 students and include PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE).
Among nearby public schools, PS 74 FUTURE LEADERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest at about 0.4 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE). By average proficiency, PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) is 1st among 9 schools close by.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
In 2020-21, PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) enrolled 406 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 340. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.5:1 to 9.7:1.
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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
- PS 74 FUTURE LEADERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 255
- FORT HILL COLLABORATIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 182
- PS 16 JOHN J DRISCOLL0.4 mi · 377
- RALPH R MCKEE CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 626
- PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS0.7 mi · 342
- PS 780.8 mi · 454
Frequently asked questions
About PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)How many students attend PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)?
PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) enrolls approximately 340 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) serve?
PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) is approximately 9.7:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)?
Student demographics at PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) are roughly 15% White, 54% Hispanic, 23% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)?
PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 in Richmond County.
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