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Enrollment
2,743
High
DISTRICT 1,567 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31·NCES 360010302878
SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL
1200 MANOR RD, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10314 · (718) 698-4200 · Richmond County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,743 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of New York public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
186 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
1,903 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 618 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 680 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 664 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 739 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 42 | 2% |
Student demographics
72%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
88.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
36.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 down about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.0% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 91.0% | 45.0% |
% 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
57.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL
SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (57.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL this school | 2,743 | 69.4% | 57.2% |
| NEW DORP HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 3,055 | 68.0% | 54.2% |
| FOREST HILLS HIGH SCHOOL FOREST HILLS | 3,394 | 72.6% | 57.3% |
| EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 3,503 | 68.2% | 53.8% |
| SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 2,885 | 74.2% | 38.5% |
| JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 3,983 | 74.2% | 60.2% |
Matched among New York high 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 SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #595 of 1,135 | #5 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #792 of 1,109 ▼ 90 | #7 of 13 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #238 of 1,135 ▼ 4 | #4 of 13 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,743 | #27 of 1,216 | #3 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #971 of 1,058 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.3% | #47 of 1,070 | #1 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.4% | #529 of 1,167 | #9 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.4% | #251 of 743 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high 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
2,743
-561 (-17%) vs 2020
-13% since 2010-11, when it was 3,165
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 2,743 | 186.5 | 14.7:1 | 69% (1,903) |
| 2023-24 | 2,841 | 187.3 | 15.2:1 | 65% (1,844) |
| 2022-23 | 2,916 | 187 | 15.6:1 | 62% (1,811) |
| 2020-21 | 3,304 | 190 | 17.4:1 | 62% (2,047) |
| 2017-18 | 3,281 | 164.1 | 20.0:1 | 56% (1,833) |
| 2015-16 | 3,369 | 155 | 21.7:1 | 53% (1,774) |
| 2010-11 | 3,165 | 143 | 22.1:1 | 51% (1,614) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL.
About SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL
A large high school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 2,743 students in grades 9 through 12. Against the 668-student average for high schools in New York, enrollment here is 311% higher.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 is the local district for SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL. It runs 74 schools with 56,577 students.
Hispanic students form the largest group at SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL, 34% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 32% White, 22% Asian, 9% Black, and 2% multiracial. In Richmond County overall, about 20% of residents are Hispanic. SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL has a diversity index of 72%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 186.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.7:1. Among high schools in New York, the typical ratio is 11.0:1. The lunch program counts 69% of students at SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Richmond County, the average is about the same, 67%.
SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 51% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 49.5% at SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 57.2%.
Richmond County has these Census figures: median household income is about $98,333, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL is among the 88 public schools in Richmond County.
Of nearby public schools, PS 54 CHARLES W LENG is the closest, at about 0.8 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 60.3%, higher than SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL's 57.2%.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
The 2024-25 enrollment of 2,743 was 17% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 3,304. Students per teacher fell from 17.4 in 2020-21 to 14.7 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
- CURTIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,439 students
- PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,696 students
- IS 72 ROCCO LAURIEMiddle · 1,532 students
- IS 75 FRANK D PAULOMiddle · 1,514 students
Other schools in STATEN ISLAND
- TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,750 students
- NEW DORP HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,055 students
- CURTIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,439 students
- PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,696 students
- IS 72 ROCCO LAURIEMiddle · 1,532 students
- IS 75 FRANK D PAULOMiddle · 1,514 students
Nearby schools
- PS 54 CHARLES W LENG0.8 mi · 790
- PS 29 BARDWELL1.2 mi · 579
- BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL1.3 mi · 263
- MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE)1.3 mi · 1,423
- RICHARD H HUNGERFORD SCHOOL (THE)1.3 mi · 516
- PS 30 WESTERLEIGH1.5 mi · 689
Frequently asked questions
About SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL?
SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,743 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 14.7:1 (186 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL?
At SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 32% White, 34% Hispanic, 9% Black, 22% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL in?
SUSAN E WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL 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.