CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the heavily attended primary schools in CENTRAL ISLIP, New York, operated by CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 997 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 125% bigger than that benchmark.

CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 7,773 students; CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 9% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.7%; CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 28.5%, -20.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Suffolk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

RALPH REED SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 34.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 25%: 796 students in 2018 compared to 997 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 69% to 83% over that span.

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