The agency recently released its report on school librarians and library access<\/a>, which shows the number of full-time and part-time librarians on staff at schools across the five boroughs. It also shows which NYC schools have a library and the hours it is open each weekday.<\/p>\nCitywide, there are just 273 full-time librarians, and 12 part-time librarians, working in public schools in the 2025-2026 school year, according to the data.<\/p>\n
The number of librarians working on Staten Island is low \u2014 making up just 5% of the total full-time school librarians citywide.<\/p>\n
The report shows there are just 15 full-time librarians working in 11 Staten Island public schools. Most of these full-time librarians are situated in the borough\u2019s high schools. There are no part-time librarians in Staten Island schools.<\/p>\n
Here are the schools on Staten Island with at least one full-time librarian on staff, according to the report.<\/p>\n
PS 18, West Brighton \u2014 one full-time librarianBernstein Intermediate School (I.S. 7), Huguenot – one full-time librarianBarnes Intermediate School (I.S. 24), Great Kills \u2014 one full-time librarianPrall Intermediate School (I.S. 27), West Brighton \u2014 one full-time librarianMarkham Intermediate School (I.S. 51), Graniteville \u2014 one full-time librarianThe Michael J. Petrides School, Sunnyside \u2014 one full-time librarianNew Dorp High School, New Dorp \u2014 two full-time librariansPort Richmond High School, Port Richmond \u2014 one full-time librarianCurtis High School, St. George \u2014 one full-time librarianTottenville High School, Huguenot \u2014 two full-time librariansStaten Island Technical High School, New Dorp \u2014 one full-time librarian<\/p>\n
According to the report, 25 Staten Island schools don\u2019t have a library, including:<\/p>\n
PS 5, HuguenotPS 9, ConcordPS 10, TompkinsvillePS 11, Dongan HillsPS 19, West BrightonPS 20, Port RichmondPS 21, Port RichmondPS 22, GranitevillePS 35, SunnysidePS 36, AnnadalePS 37R, Great KillsPS 46, South BeachPS 55, EltingvillePS 65, TompkinsvillePS 74, TompkinsvilleP373R, New BrightonThe Michael J. Petrides School, SunnysideThe Young Women\u2019s Leadership School of Staten Island, StapletonStaten Island Rise Academy, TravisMarsh Avenue School for Expeditionary Learning, New SpringvilleGaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School, New SpringvilleConcord High School, ConcordRalph R. McKee Career and Technical Education High School, St. GeorgeThe Richard H. Hungerford School, SunnysideSouth Richmond High School I.S.\/PS 25, Pleasant Plains<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the education department stated that the city recognizes school libraries are \u201cessential to inquiry-driven learning and high-quality instruction.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLibrarians and libraries can serve as a powerful complement to the NYC Reads program in supporting literacy development for all students,\u201d said Isla Gething, a spokesperson for the city education department. \u201cExpanding access to a diverse range of books and resources supports our students as not just readers, but researchers, creators, and critical thinkers. As the report highlights, we\u2019re proud to have 273 full-time and 12 part-time school librarians, who help foster curiosity and exploration citywide. There\u2019s still room to grow, and we will continue expanding these numbers to bring more knowledge, books, and a culture of reading to more students.\u201d <\/p>\n
Additionally, the agency welcomed 22 aspiring school librarians this year into the Teacher2Librarian cohort, which prepares to transform school libraries through inclusive, innovative, and student-centered instruction and programming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Every public school on Staten Island has a library open to students \u2014 but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-97756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}