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Enrollment
795
Elementary
DISTRICT 782 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LONGWOOD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361923001751
C E WALTERS SCHOOL
15 EVERETT DR, YAPHANK, NY 11980 · (631) 345-2757 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL795 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 27% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
332 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 | 153 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 170 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 148 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 160 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 164 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (153) is 7% smaller than its 4th grade class (164).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
Based on grade levels within LONGWOOD CENTRAL 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
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp 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 43 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 48.0% |
% 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
42.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 C E WALTERS SCHOOL
C E WALTERS SCHOOL's state test result (42.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| C E WALTERS SCHOOL this school | 795 | 41.8% | 42.9% |
| MYERS CORNERS SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 836 | 36.0% | 47.4% |
| WEST MIDDLE ISLAND SCHOOL MIDDLE ISLAND | 697 | 45.8% | 37.5% |
| RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIDGE | 684 | 36.5% | 40.6% |
| MARLBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MARLBORO | 780 | 33.1% | 54.0% |
| BROOKLYN NEW SCHOOL-PS 146 (THE) BROOKLYN | 634 | 37.1% | 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 C E WALTERS SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #1,481 of 2,335 | #98 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,737 of 2,342 ▼ 335 | #130 of 169 ▼ 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,386 of 2,343 ▲ 291 | #86 of 169 ▲ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 795 | #156 of 2,585 | #12 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #1,891 of 2,338 | #168 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.3% | #594 of 2,388 | #49 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.8% | #1,645 of 2,534 | #74 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.6% | #361 of 606 | #28 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
795
+82 (+12%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 1,135
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 795 | 56.4 | 14.1:1 | 42% (332) |
| 2023-24 | 806 | 53.8 | 15.0:1 | 50% (405) |
| 2022-23 | 795 | 55.1 | 14.4:1 | 49% (391) |
| 2020-21 | 713 | 53 | 13.4:1 | 46% (331) |
| 2017-18 | 746 | 52 | 14.3:1 | 51% (382) |
| 2015-16 | 839 | 56 | 15.0:1 | 52% (437) |
| 2010-11 | 808 | 53 | 15.3:1 | 41% (333) |
| 2000-01 | 1,203 | 72 | 16.7:1 | 22% (269) |
| 1990-91 | 1,135 | 65 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for C E WALTERS SCHOOL.
About C E WALTERS SCHOOL
C E WALTERS SCHOOL is the name of a large elementary school in YAPHANK, New York. There are 795 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 4. That puts enrollment 79% larger than the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
C E WALTERS SCHOOL belongs to LONGWOOD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 7 schools and 8,787 students.
Of every 100 students at C E WALTERS SCHOOL, about 55 are White. It is also 23% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Suffolk County's residents are about 66% White, 11 points above the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, C E WALTERS SCHOOL scores 62%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1:1. The school has 56.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is 1.2 students per teacher. In all, 42% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Suffolk County is close, at 39%.
Among New York public elementary schools, C E WALTERS SCHOOL outscored 27%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, C E WALTERS SCHOOL's results are 16.7 points below predicted: 42.9% against 59.6%.
The school is in Suffolk County, where the median household earns about $130,686 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. C E WALTERS SCHOOL shares Suffolk County with 342 other public schools.
LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is about 1.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of C E WALTERS SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, C E WALTERS SCHOOL is 5th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
C E WALTERS SCHOOL is coded as Rural: Fringe in federal locale data.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 795, from 713 in 2020-21.
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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 LONGWOOD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,993 students
- LONGWOOD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 1,363 students
- LONGWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,304 students
- CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 951 students
- WEST MIDDLE ISLAND SCHOOLElementary · 697 students
- RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 684 students
Nearby schools
- LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 2,993
- LONGWOOD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,363
- LONGWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 1,304
- EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.0 mi · 680
- PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL3.8 mi · 2,487
- CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.0 mi · 951
Frequently asked questions
About C E WALTERS SCHOOLHow many students attend C E WALTERS SCHOOL?
C E WALTERS SCHOOL enrolls approximately 795 students in grades KG-04.
Is C E WALTERS SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
C E WALTERS SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at C E WALTERS SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at C E WALTERS SCHOOL is approximately 14.1:1 (56 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at C E WALTERS SCHOOL?
At C E WALTERS SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 55% White, 23% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is C E WALTERS SCHOOL public or private?
C E WALTERS SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LONGWOOD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.