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ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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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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