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Enrollment
430
Elementary
DISTRICT 497 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362247003160
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
114 BAY AVE, PATCHOGUE, NY 11772 · (631) 687-6950 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL430 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
145 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 39% larger than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
55%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
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
44.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (36.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 430 | 33.7% | 36.8% |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MOHEGAN LAKE | 411 | 35.3% | 63.4% |
| MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PATCHOGUE | 513 | 32.2% | 35.5% |
| JOHN M MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST HAMPTON | 517 | 29.6% | 41.6% |
| KENT PRIMARY SCHOOL CARMEL | 366 | 39.3% | 58.1% |
| RICHARD P CONNOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUFFERN | 437 | 35.5% | 41.7% |
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 BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #1,765 of 2,335 | #133 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,698 of 2,342 ▲ 30 | #125 of 169 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,964 of 2,343 ▼ 227 | #146 of 169 ▼ 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 430 | #1,202 of 2,585 | #109 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #1,385 of 2,338 | #122 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.3% | #992 of 2,388 | #95 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.7% | #1,880 of 2,534 | #97 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +31.9% | #77 of 606 | #2 of 57 |
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
430
+67 (+18%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 451
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 430 | 35 | 12.3:1 | 34% (145) |
| 2023-24 | 419 | 33 | 12.7:1 | 45% (188) |
| 2022-23 | 408 | 31.7 | 12.9:1 | 39% (161) |
| 2020-21 | 363 | 34 | 10.7:1 | 58% (211) |
| 2017-18 | 326 | 22 | 14.8:1 | 56% (181) |
| 2015-16 | 351 | 23 | 15.3:1 | 58% (202) |
| 2010-11 | 393 | 27 | 14.6:1 | 33% (130) |
| 2000-01 | 463 | 34 | 13.6:1 | 24% (111) |
| 1990-91 | 451 | 25 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school. Its address is in PATCHOGUE, New York. It has an enrollment of 430 students in kindergarten through 5.
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports to PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 11 schools and 7,605 students.
More than half of enrollment at BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic: 55%. Other groups make up 38% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 55%.
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1, with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is similar, at 12.8:1. The school has 34% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 62.6% for BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 36.8%. The 25.8-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of New York schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Suffolk County show that median household income comes to about $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Suffolk County counts 343 public schools with about 222,439 students.
SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOL sits about 0.3 miles from BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 430 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 363. Its ratio of students to teachers was 10.7:1 in 2020-21, and 12.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
Other schools in PATCHOGUE
- EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCESCombined · 2,043 students
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 596 students
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 579 students
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
- MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 513 students
Other Bay Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Bay Elementary. BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Bay Elementary SchoolSEABROOK, TX · 519 students
- Bay ElementarySan Lorenzo, CA · 422 students
- BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBAY, AR · 317 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 513
- RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 314
- MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 513
- EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES1.5 mi · 2,043
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 579
- BLUE POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 218
Frequently asked questions
About BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 430 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.3:1 students per teacher at BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 38% White, 55% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.