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Enrollment
688
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302186
STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE)
216 CLAWSON ST, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306 · (718) 351-6777 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL688 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% 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.
- 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
14.2:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
529 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 132 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (111) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
71%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
61.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
63.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 51.0% |
% 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
51.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% 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 STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE)
STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (51.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) this school | 688 | 76.9% | 51.1% |
| PS 215 MORRIS H WEISS BROOKLYN | 686 | 77.3% | 55.7% |
| PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON STATEN ISLAND | 627 | 75.9% | 68.0% |
| PS 209 MARGARET MEAD BROOKLYN | 702 | 78.6% | 57.5% |
| PS 69 DANIEL D TOMPKINS STATEN ISLAND | 674 | 72.7% | 52.4% |
| PS 216 ARTURO TOSCANINI BROOKLYN | 715 | 82.2% | 59.8% |
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 STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #1,113 of 2,335 | #35 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #962 of 2,342 ▲ 276 | #31 of 53 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #886 of 2,343 ▲ 175 | #32 of 53 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 688 | #289 of 2,585 | #17 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #1,918 of 2,338 | #39 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #197 of 2,388 | #6 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.9% | #855 of 2,534 | #23 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.5% | #532 of 606 | #14 of 15 |
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
688
+22 (+3%) vs 2020
0% since 2010-11, when it was 691
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 688 | 48.3 | 14.2:1 | 77% (529) |
| 2023-24 | 699 | 45.6 | 15.3:1 | 78% (547) |
| 2022-23 | 653 | 45 | 14.5:1 | 76% (497) |
| 2020-21 | 666 | 48 | 13.9:1 | 71% (471) |
| 2017-18 | 678 | 51 | 13.3:1 | 68% (459) |
| 2015-16 | 699 | 45 | 15.5:1 | 63% (442) |
| 2010-11 | 691 | 45 | 15.4:1 | 61% (422) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE).
About STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE)
STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, according to federal school records. It reported 688 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
The NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 system has 74 schools and 56,577 students.
The student body at STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) has no majority group. White students lead at 37%. Next come 30% Asian, 25% Hispanic, and 6% Black. The county population is about 60% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
Classroom staffing at STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) totals 48.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.2:1. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is higher. Federal data show 77% of students (529) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Richmond County, the average eligibility rate is 67%.
STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 59% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 46.7% for STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE). The school posts 51.1%, 4.4 points above the prediction.
For the population of Richmond County, median household income comes to about $98,333, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Richmond County's 88 public schools enroll about 62,254 students and include STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE).
NEW DORP HIGH SCHOOL sits about 0.3 miles from STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE). STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) is City: Large.
The school grew from 666 students in 2020-21 to 688 in 2024-25.
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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
- NEW DORP HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 3,055
- IS 2 GEORGE L EGBERT0.5 mi · 980
- PS 38 GEORGE CROMWELL0.5 mi · 354
- STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,425
- PS 50 FRANK HANKINSON1.2 mi · 750
- PS 52 JOHN C THOMPSON1.2 mi · 627
Frequently asked questions
About STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE)What is the total enrollment at STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE)?
STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 688 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) serve?
STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE)?
The student-to-teacher ratio at STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) is approximately 14.2:1 (48 FTE teachers).
How diverse is STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE)?
STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) reports a student body of 37% White, 25% Hispanic, 6% Black, 30% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) in?
STEPHANIE A VIERNO SCHOOL (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.