CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in PATCHOGUE, New York, overseen by PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 596 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 35% above that benchmark.

Across the 11 schools in PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (7,605 students total), CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 39% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 62.2%; CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 35.7%, -26.5 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 16% since 2018, when it stood at 515 (now 596). The White share of enrollment shrank from 48% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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