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If you could change one rule at CAYUGA SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
539
Elementary
DISTRICT 490 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362535003498
CAYUGA SCHOOL
865 HAWKINS AVE, LAKE GROVE, NY 11755 · (631) 471-1800 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL539 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 43% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.5:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
180 students
DISTRICT 33% · 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 | 102 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 25% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (134).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
63.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp 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 63 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
50.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% 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 CAYUGA SCHOOL
CAYUGA SCHOOL's state test result (50.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAYUGA SCHOOL this school | 539 | 33.4% | 50.8% |
| LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL FARMINGVILLE | 561 | 35.3% | 40.2% |
| CHIPPEWA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLTSVILLE | 543 | 29.1% | 43.4% |
| NOKOMIS SCHOOL HOLBROOK | 496 | 35.5% | 39.6% |
| WENONAH SCHOOL LAKE GROVE | 488 | 28.9% | 58.4% |
| GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL GOSHEN | 603 | 29.7% | 45.5% |
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 CAYUGA SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #1,137 of 2,335 | #74 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #983 of 2,342 ▲ 100 | #65 of 169 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,391 of 2,343 ▼ 87 | #89 of 169 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 539 | #674 of 2,585 | #60 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #1,065 of 2,338 | #92 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #833 of 2,388 | #81 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.4% | #1,889 of 2,534 | #98 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #1,632 of 1,757 | #121 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
539
+15 (+3%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 602
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 539 | 46.8 | 11.5:1 | 33% (180) |
| 2023-24 | 505 | 42.6 | 11.9:1 | 32% (164) |
| 2022-23 | 516 | 42 | 12.3:1 | 31% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 35 | 15.0:1 | 22% (117) |
| 2017-18 | 553 | 34 | 16.3:1 | 29% (163) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 32 | 16.1:1 | 24% (126) |
| 2010-11 | 612 | 47 | 13.0:1 | 11% (67) |
| 2000-01 | 725 | 47 | 15.4:1 | 9% (64) |
| 1990-91 | 602 | 46 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CAYUGA SCHOOL.
About CAYUGA SCHOOL
CAYUGA SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in LAKE GROVE, New York. The latest federal count shows 539 students in kindergarten through 5. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York, enrollment here is 22% higher.
SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for CAYUGA SCHOOL. It has 15 schools and 11,556 students.
White students account for 58% of enrollment at CAYUGA SCHOOL. Other groups make up 28% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at CAYUGA SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 58%.
Teacher staffing is 46.8 full-time equivalents, or about 11.5 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. About 33% of students, or 180, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
The allk12 Grade for CAYUGA SCHOOL is C+. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 43% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
CAYUGA SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 50.8% is 12.0 points below the 62.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
CAYUGA SCHOOL is located in Suffolk County, where median household income is about $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. CAYUGA SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County, which together enroll about 222,439 students.
The next-closest public school is SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL NORTH, about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 50.5% on proficiency, and CAYUGA SCHOOL is above that at 50.8%.
The NCES locale for CAYUGA 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.
CAYUGA SCHOOL saw enrollment rise 3% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.0:1 in 2020-21, and 11.5:1 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 SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL NORTHHigh · 2,008 students
- SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,984 students
- SENECA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 928 students
- SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 893 students
- SAMOSET MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 847 students
- LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 561 students
Other schools in LAKE GROVE
- WENONAH SCHOOLElementary · 488 students
- EUGENE AUER MEMORIAL SCHOOLElementary · 308 students
Other Cayuga schools
One other US public school is named Cayuga. CAYUGA SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Cayuga SchoolPhiladelphia, PA · 360 students
Nearby schools
- SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL NORTH0.5 mi · 2,008
- SAMOSET MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 847
- WENONAH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 488
- HOLBROOK ROAD SCHOOL1.4 mi · 396
- EUGENE AUER MEMORIAL SCHOOL1.7 mi · 308
- TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About CAYUGA SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CAYUGA SCHOOL?
CAYUGA SCHOOL enrolls approximately 539 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does CAYUGA SCHOOL serve?
CAYUGA SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does CAYUGA SCHOOL have?
CAYUGA SCHOOL employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1.
What is the student diversity at CAYUGA SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CAYUGA SCHOOL are roughly 58% White, 28% Hispanic, 4% Black, 7% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is CAYUGA SCHOOL in?
CAYUGA SCHOOL is part of SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.