Staten Island is the simplest borough on the special education map: the whole island is one school district, District 31, and it has its own committee. The city's committees page marks that committee, CSE 11, as new as of March 2024. If your child's IEP services were missed and you want the time made up, this page covers who to contact on Staten Island and what the process generally looks like. We are an independent site that helps families for free. We are not the DOE, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice.
CSE 11: District 31
715 Ocean Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, New York 10301. The city lists the phone number as 718-420-5790, noted "as of July 1."
- School-age email: CSE11@schools.nyc.gov
- Preschool email: CPSE11support@schools.nyc.gov
- Private school Notice of Intent submissions: CSE11PNI@schools.nyc.gov
Because the committee is recent, an older letter, website or relative's advice may point you to an office in another borough. Use the details above, taken from the city's page.
Does CSE 11 handle your child?
Every school district number on Staten Island is 31, so there is no question of which committee. The question is whether the committee or the school is your starting point. The city says the CSEs coordinate for preschoolers; students at private, parochial or charter schools in the city; children placed at schools outside the city or state; students on home or hospital instruction as their IEP placement; homeschooled children; and children not attending school. A child at a Staten Island district public school is not on that list, so the school's IEP team is usually the first stop.
One wrinkle: a Staten Island resident who attends school in another borough is generally assigned by the district of that school, not by home address. The exceptions the city names are homeschooled children, children not in school, and children at schools outside the city.
Getting started on Staten Island
- Build the record. List each IEP service, how often it should happen, and the sessions that did not. Our documenting missed services page has a checklist.
- Ask the school in writing how the missed sessions will be made up, and keep a copy.
- Email CSE 11 if your child is in a group it serves. Include your child's name and date of birth, any language or hearing access need, and what happened. The page also says offices take hand-delivered referrals between 8am and 4pm on weekdays.
- If nothing changes, a parent may file a due process complaint and have an impartial hearing officer decide. See our due process complaint guide.
Finding a provider on Staten Island
Make-up hours usually come as an RSA for therapies or a P4 letter for SETSS, and the family chooses the provider. See the RSA guide and the P4 letter guide. On an island, availability can be the hard part: ask providers early whether they actually work on Staten Island, whether they come to the home, and whether online sessions are an option for academic support. A provider who is willing but would travel from another borough may struggle to keep a steady weekly slot. Our award hours calculator helps you see how many sessions a week an award needs to be used in time.
Official background: Committees on Special Education and Committees on Preschool Special Education, NYC Public Schools
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