SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL

SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL, a big primary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, serves 720 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 63% larger than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 74 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 (56,577 students total), SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 32% Asian, 23% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL has 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 61.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Richmond County) logs that median household income runs about $98,333, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL is one of 88 public schools in Richmond County (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students).

MARSH AVENUE SCHOOL FOR EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 69.1%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 4%: 692 students in 2018 compared to 720 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share grew from 17% to 32%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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