TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

As a sprawling four-year high school in STATEN ISLAND, New York, TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL works with 3,750 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL sits 461% bigger than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 runs 74 schools in total, collectively educating 56,577 students. TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 18% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Richmond County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 244 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Richmond County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Richmond County put median household earnings sit near $98,333, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 88 public schools in Richmond County (combined enrollment of about 62,254 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 5 HUGUENOT, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 76.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 3,803 (now 3,750). Over the same period, the White share declined from 79% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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