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Enrollment
515
Elementary
DISTRICT 497 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362247003159
BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
199 BARTON AVE, PATCHOGUE, NY 11772 · (631) 687-6900 · Suffolk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL515 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
164 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 54 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 10 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
59.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +18.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 41.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 515 | 31.8% | 45.8% |
| PATRICIA A DICHIARO SCHOOL YONKERS | 536 | 31.7% | 74.8% |
| VAN CORTLANDTVILLE SCHOOL MOHEGAN LAKE | 568 | 34.0% | 48.2% |
| FRANK G LINDSEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONTROSE | 472 | 35.4% | 58.5% |
| RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL CALVERTON | 520 | 32.7% | 42.5% |
| TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MEDFORD | 433 | 32.3% | 46.8% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #1,349 of 2,335 | #88 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #1,116 of 2,342 ▲ 526 | #76 of 169 ▲ 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,390 of 2,343 ▼ 38 | #88 of 169 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 515 | #755 of 2,585 | #72 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #651 of 2,338 | #55 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #503 of 2,388 | #33 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.8% | #1,926 of 2,534 | #105 of 200 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
515
+56 (+12%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 760
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 515 | 48.6 | 10.6:1 | 32% (164) |
| 2023-24 | 492 | 46 | 10.7:1 | 42% (209) |
| 2022-23 | 478 | 43.8 | 10.9:1 | 38% (183) |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 41 | 11.2:1 | 45% (206) |
| 2017-18 | 515 | 37 | 13.9:1 | 46% (235) |
| 2015-16 | 525 | 36 | 14.6:1 | 50% (261) |
| 2010-11 | 642 | 52 | 12.3:1 | 29% (188) |
| 2000-01 | 723 | 46 | 15.7:1 | 24% (176) |
| 1990-91 | 760 | 40 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in PATCHOGUE, New York. The school reports 515 students in pre-K through 5.
Besides BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 other schools. The district enrolls 7,605 students.
White students are the largest group at BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 44% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 38% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 64%.
Federal data list 48.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 10.6:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. The lunch program counts 32% of students at BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 63.3%. It scores 45.8%, 17.5 points below that figure.
Census estimates describe Suffolk County this way: median household income is about $130,686, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 343 public schools in Suffolk County, with a combined enrollment of about 222,439.
The closest public school, SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.3 miles from BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 3rd out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students climbed from 459 to 515 over 4 years.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,487 students
- EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 596 students
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 579 students
- OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 545 students
- MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
Other schools in PATCHOGUE
- EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCESCombined · 2,043 students
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 596 students
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 579 students
- MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 513 students
- BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 430 students
Other Barton Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Barton Elementary. BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 10.
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE WORTH, FL · 1,185 students
- Barton Elementary SchoolIRVING, TX · 848 students
- Barton ElementaryMINNEAPOLIS, MN · 508 students
- Barton ElementarySan Bernardino, CA · 485 students
- Barton ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 418 students
Nearby schools
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 579
- EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES0.5 mi · 2,043
- MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 513
- TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 433
- OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 545
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 596
Frequently asked questions
About BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 515 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.6:1 students per teacher at BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 44% White, 38% Hispanic, 11% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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