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ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL
ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL is an elementary campus of expansive scale in ISLANDIA, New York, one of the schools within CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 821 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL sits 85% larger than that benchmark.
CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 7,773 students. ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 10% Black, 2% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.
In terms of school funding signals, ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL logs 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of -16.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household earnings sit near $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).
The closest other public school is RALPH REED SCHOOL, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.2%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL has ticked down 9%, going from 903 students in 2018 to 821 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 78% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.
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