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Demographics: According to the 2008 estimates of the United States Census, 487,407 people live on Staten Island. Staten Island has a population density of 7,650.5 per square mile (2,954 per km2).
Geography.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough-county has a total area of 102.5 sq mi (265.5 km²). Land comprises 58.5 sq mi (151.5 km²) and water 44.0 sq mi (114.0 km²) of it (42.95%).

Staten Island is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull.

In addition to the main island, the borough and county also include several small uninhabited islands:
• The Isle of Meadows (at the mouth of Fresh Kills)
• Prall's Island (in the Arthur Kill)
• Shooters Island (in Newark Bay; part of it belongs to New Jersey)
• Swinburne Island (in Lower New York Bay)
• Hoffman Island (in Lower New York Bay)

The highest point on the island, the summit of Todt Hill, elevation 410 ft (125 m), is also the highest point in the five boroughs, as well as the highest point on the Atlantic Coastal Plain south of Great Blue Hill in Massachusetts and the highest point on the coast proper south of Maine's Camden Hills.

In the late 1960s the island was the site of important battles of open-space preservation, resulting in the largest area of parkland in New York City and an extensive Greenbelt that laces the island with woodland trails.

Staten Island is the only borough in New York City that does not share a land border with another borough (Marble Hill in Manhattan is contiguous with the Bronx).

Hospitals
• Richmond University Medical Center
• Staten Island University Hospital

Public schools
Education in Staten Island is provided by a number of public and private institutions. Public schools in the borough are managed by the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States.
Public middle schools include Intermediate Schools 2, 7, 24, 27,32, 34, 49, 51,6163 72 and 75, as well as part of the Petrides School (which runs from kindergarten to High School)

Public high schools include:
• College of Staten Island High School for International Studies
• Curtis High School
• New Dorp High School
• Petrides High School
• Port Richmond High School
• Staten Island Technical High School
• Susan E. Wagner High School
• Tottenville High School
• Ralph McKee Vocational/ Technical High School

Private schools

Staten Island Academy is the only independent private (non-public, non-religious) grade school on the island and is one of the oldest in the entire country.

Catholic high schools include:

St. John Villa Academy (all-girls')
St. Peter's Boys High School
St. Peter's High School for Girls
Notre Dame Academy (Staten Island, New York)
St. Joseph Hill Academy
St. John Villa Academy
Monsignor Farrell High School
Moore Catholic High School
St. Joseph by the Sea High School.

Colleges and Universities

• The College of Staten Island is one of the six senior colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY). The college offers both associate's and bachelor's degrees. The College of Staten Island also offers post-graduate level study from master's to doctoral level study.
• Wagner College is a coeducational private liberal arts college with an enrollment of 1,900 undergraduates and 400 graduate students. The college is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
• St. John's University has a campus on Staten Island. It is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic university.

Towns of Staten Island:

Staten Islanders will usually say they live in Bulls Head or Tottenville rather than on Richmond Avenue or Forest Hill Road. Proud of the towns they live in, they are quick to note which one they're from. Click here to learn some interesting Town information.

Staten Island is divided into 4 areas:

Staten Island's 'Did You Know' Interesting Facts:

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