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Enrollment
669
Elementary
DISTRICT 389 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COMMACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360813000577
BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
BURR RD, COMMACK, NY 11725 · (631) 858-3636 · Suffolk County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL669 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
74 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 221 | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 213 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 235 | 35% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within COMMACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
63.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's state test result (63.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL this school | 669 | 11.1% | 63.9% |
| MINNESAUKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST SETAUKET | 644 | 13.8% | 74.0% |
| PS 6 LILLIE D BLAKE NEW YORK | 655 | 11.8% | 88.2% |
| PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR NEW YORK | 605 | 14.0% | 83.9% |
| EAST BROADWAY SCHOOL SEAFORD | 662 | 15.4% | 55.5% |
| PS 29 JOHN M HARRIGAN BROOKLYN | 708 | 13.6% | 85.3% |
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 BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #601 of 2,335 | #31 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #416 of 2,342 ▲ 276 | #14 of 169 ▲ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #725 of 2,343 ▲ 66 | #40 of 169 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 669 | #318 of 2,585 | #26 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #1,526 of 2,338 | #138 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.8% | #1,361 of 2,388 | #123 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.1% | #2,416 of 2,534 | #182 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.9% | #1,722 of 1,757 | #134 of 137 |
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
669
+12 (+2%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 600
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 669 | 52.7 | 12.7:1 | 11% (74) |
| 2023-24 | 676 | 53.1 | 12.7:1 | 11% (72) |
| 2022-23 | 681 | 54.1 | 12.6:1 | 11% (75) |
| 2020-21 | 657 | 46 | 14.3:1 | 12% (76) |
| 2017-18 | 675 | 47.4 | 14.2:1 | 10% (66) |
| 2015-16 | 745 | 50 | 14.9:1 | 6% (43) |
| 2010-11 | 958 | 63 | 15.2:1 | 3% (32) |
| 2000-01 | 948 | 64 | 14.8:1 | 2% (20) |
| 1990-91 | 600 | 44 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
About BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a large elementary school serving families in COMMACK, New York. Its grade span covers grades 3 through 5, with 669 students on the rolls. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
Federal data list 8 schools in COMMACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 5,399 students enrolled.
More than half of enrollment at BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is White: 71%. Next come 14% Hispanic and 12% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL scores 47%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.7:1. The school has 52.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is similar, at 12.8:1. In all, 11% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County, the school's rate is lower.
In New York, BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 63.9% actual against a predicted 70.9%.
In the wider Suffolk County area, median household income comes to about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Suffolk County counts 343 public schools with about 222,439 students.
BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's nearest public school is HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (about 0.8 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is 5th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 657 in 2020-21 and 669 in 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 14.3:1 to 12.7:1 between 2020-21 and 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 COMMACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- COMMACK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,728 students
- COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,337 students
- SAWMILL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 550 students
- NORTH RIDGE SCHOOLElementary · 335 students
- WOOD PARK SCHOOLElementary · 280 students
- INDIAN HOLLOW SCHOOLElementary · 254 students
Other schools in COMMACK
- COMMACK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,728 students
- COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,337 students
- SAWMILL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 550 students
- NORTH RIDGE SCHOOLElementary · 335 students
- WOOD PARK SCHOOLElementary · 280 students
- INDIAN HOLLOW SCHOOLElementary · 254 students
Nearby schools
- HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 410
- COMMACK HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,728
- NORTH RIDGE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 335
- ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 677
- ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 425
- JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 669 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serve?
BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
At BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 71% White, 14% Hispanic, 1% Black, 12% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL public or private?
BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by COMMACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.