P.S. 046 Albert V. Maniscalco

On paper, P.S. 046's proficiency rates look rough: 37.7% in ELA and 31.7% in math for 2025, both roughly 20+ percentage points below the district average of about 61% in each subject, and the overall score of 1.39 out of 4 trails the district's 2.45. The longer view is more encouraging — ELA has climbed from 25.7% in 2016 to 37.7% in 2025, and math nudged up from 26.8% to 31.7% over the same period. There's a striking spread across grade levels: fifth-graders post 39.3% ELA and 31% math proficiency, while fourth-graders come in at 27.3% and 18.2% respectively, suggesting the cohort that tested in 2025 had an unusually hard year rather than a school-wide collapse.

The internal culture reads warm and stable on most survey measures — 100% of teachers trust their principal, 95% feel collegial trust with peers, 95% report feeling safe, and the school scores a perfect 100% on strong relationships. Families report 86% trust in both teachers and the principal. That said, parent satisfaction (82%) trails the district average of 93%, and the chronic absenteeism rate of 60.3% is the most telling figure in the file — most kids here miss 10% or more of school days. Notably, that absenteeism is concentrated heavily among Asian (88.9%) and White (72.7%) students, while Black students (34.5%) attend most reliably. Discipline is essentially a non-issue: zero suspensions for three consecutive years.

The 211-student body is genuinely mixed: roughly a third Hispanic, a quarter Black, a quarter White, 10% Asian, plus smaller multi-racial and Native American shares, giving a diversity index of 82%. The 25% IEP share is meaningful and reflects the school's role as a self-contained special education site as well as a general education zoned building. The 75.1% economic need index sits well above what the immediate neighborhood's 10.2% poverty rate might suggest, meaning the school draws from a wider economic range than its census tract.

The school sits in the Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills area, a middle-class stretch of Staten Island where 63.1% of households own their homes and the median household income is $81,734 — modest by citywide standards but steady for the borough. About 20.5% of households have children, and 31.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The neighborhood reads family-oriented and stable rather than rapidly changing.

Three Staten Island Railway stops serve the area: Old Town about an 8-minute walk, Grasmere roughly 13 minutes, and Dongan Hills around 18 minutes on foot.