STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of well-populated scale in STATEN ISLAND, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31, educateing 1,425 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 113% bigger than the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 comprises 74 schools with combined enrollment of 56,577 students; STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Asian, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 27% White, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 13% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Richmond County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 54.2%; this one delivers 100.0%, a residual of +45.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Richmond County indicate median household earnings sit near $98,333, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 88 public schools in Richmond County (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students).

NEW DORP HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 64.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL has rose 8%, going from 1,320 students in 2018 to 1,425 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share increased from 48% to 67%. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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