PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)

As a cozy K-5 school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) teaches 340 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) sits 23% below that benchmark.

PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) is one of 74 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, a district that teaches 56,577 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Black, 15% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 62.0%, a residual of +14.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Richmond County) records that the typical household earns roughly $98,333 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Richmond County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students), of which PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) is one.

PS 74 FUTURE LEADERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE). Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 38.5%.

PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 340 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 25% to 15% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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