CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 511 MAIN ST, in CENTER MORICHES, New York, CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary campus that instructs 586 students (grades K through 5), run under CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 443.

CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,394 students. CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 27% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Suffolk County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.3%, the actual is 45.5%, a residual of -18.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household earnings sit near $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 611 students in 2018 compared to 586 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 17% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.