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How has PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
689
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2·NCES 360007704406
PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND
645 MAIN ST, ROOSEVELT ISLAND, NY 10044 · (212) 980-0294 · New York County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
16.5:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
203 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 51 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 30 | 4% |
| Grade 7 | 33 | 5% |
| Grade 8 | 33 | 5% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 188% larger than its 8th grade class (33).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
76.8%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 76.8% |
| 2023-24 | 73.0% | 74.9% |
% 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
69.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND
PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND's state test result (69.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND this school | 689 | 29.5% | 69.3% |
| PAUMANOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIX HILLS | 602 | 30.1% | 75.1% |
| PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN FOREST HILLS | 766 | 25.3% | 81.2% |
| PS/IS 78 LONG ISLAND CITY | 799 | 23.2% | 80.2% |
| PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS FOREST HILLS | 605 | 25.8% | 84.7% |
| PARKWAY SCHOOL EAST MEADOW | 570 | 27.7% | 75.2% |
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/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #427 of 2,335 | #50 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.8% | #467 of 2,342 ▼ 29 | #53 of 151 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #507 of 2,343 ▼ 310 | #60 of 151 ▼ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #282 of 2,585 | #13 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #2,201 of 2,338 | #112 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.4% | #43 of 2,388 | #3 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.5% | #1,985 of 2,534 | #131 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.0% | #243 of 606 | #15 of 28 |
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
689
+64 (+10%) vs 2020
+65% since 2010-11, when it was 418
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 689 | 41.8 | 16.5:1 | 29% (203) |
| 2023-24 | 681 | 40 | 17.0:1 | 32% (215) |
| 2022-23 | 716 | 39 | 18.4:1 | 33% (233) |
| 2020-21 | 625 | 39 | 16.0:1 | 29% (182) |
| 2017-18 | 621 | 42 | 14.8:1 | 34% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 597 | 35 | 17.1:1 | 35% (211) |
| 2010-11 | 418 | 31 | 13.5:1 | 46% (194) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND.
About PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND
PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND serves students in ROOSEVELT ISLAND, New York, as a high-enrollment elementary school. The student body numbers 689 students, from pre-K through 8. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 56% bigger than that.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 has 54,599 students in 119 schools, and PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND is one of those schools.
Asian students are the largest group at PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND, with 32% of enrollment. Next come 31% White, 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 12% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 75%.
PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND operates with 41.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 16.5:1. That ratio is over the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND reports 29% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 70% average for public schools in New York County, the school's rate is lower.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In New York, PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 69.3% actual against a predicted 64.2%.
According to the American Community Survey, in New York County, median household income is about $103,931, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 64%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. A total of 358 public schools operate in New York County, serving about 152,104 students.
PS 76 WILLIAM HALLET is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND is 5th of 9 on proficiency.
PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 625 to 689.
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New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- ART AND DESIGN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,485 students
- HIGH SCHOOL OF FASHION INDUSTRIES (THE)High · 1,455 students
- JHS 104 SIMON BARUCHMiddle · 1,023 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESHigh · 1,007 students
Nearby schools
- PS 76 WILLIAM HALLET0.4 mi · 397
- PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR0.5 mi · 605
- YORKVILLE EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 250
- PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON0.5 mi · 541
- VOICE CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW YORK0.5 mi · 849
- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 538
Frequently asked questions
About PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLANDHow many students attend PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND?
PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND enrolls approximately 689 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND serve?
PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND?
Approximately 16.5:1 students per teacher at PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND.
How diverse is PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND?
PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND reports a student body of 31% White, 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, 32% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND public or private?
PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.