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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 465 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360684000469
CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
511 MAIN ST, CENTER MORICHES, NY 11934 · (631) 878-9780 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% 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.
- DBeats 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
13.2:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
170 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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 CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE 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
48.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
54.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 52.0% |
% 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
45.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 586 | 29.0% | 45.5% |
| GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL GOSHEN | 603 | 29.7% | 45.5% |
| MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONTGOMERY | 539 | 27.6% | 53.3% |
| OTISVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OTISVILLE | 559 | 26.1% | 49.5% |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAHOPAC | 598 | 27.1% | 55.0% |
| MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 509 | 27.1% | 38.8% |
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 CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #1,361 of 2,335 | #90 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,284 of 2,342 ▼ 67 | #90 of 169 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,422 of 2,343 ▼ 30 | #91 of 169 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #518 of 2,585 | #46 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #1,678 of 2,338 | #148 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.6% | #1,210 of 2,388 | #109 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.0% | #1,996 of 2,534 | #114 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #1,530 of 1,757 | #108 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
586
-12 (-2%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 571
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 586 | 44.5 | 13.2:1 | 29% (170) |
| 2023-24 | 616 | 44.5 | 13.8:1 | 35% (214) |
| 2022-23 | 598 | 42 | 14.2:1 | 28% (165) |
| 2020-21 | 598 | 45 | 13.3:1 | 30% (182) |
| 2017-18 | 611 | 42 | 14.6:1 | 24% (146) |
| 2015-16 | 699 | 45 | 15.5:1 | 24% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 699 | 62 | 11.3:1 | 18% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 51 | 13.1:1 | 20% (135) |
| 1990-91 | 571 | 43 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
At 511 MAIN ST in CENTER MORICHES, New York, CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary school. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 586 students. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports to CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 3 schools and 1,394 students.
More than half of enrollment at CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White: 65%. Enrollment also includes 27% Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 3% Black. In Suffolk County overall, the White share is about 66%. The diversity index for CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 51%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 44.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.2:1. That is in line with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Roughly 29% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
On the allk12 Grade, CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C, ahead of 29% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 64.3% for CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The school posts 45.5%, 18.8 points below the prediction.
American Community Survey estimates for Suffolk County show that median household income comes to about $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Suffolk County counts 343 public schools with about 222,439 students.
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.5 miles from CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 598 students in 2020-21 and 586 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
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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 CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 511 students
- CENTER MORICHES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 297 students
Other schools in CENTER MORICHES
- CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 511 students
- CENTER MORICHES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 297 students
Nearby schools
- CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 511
- CENTER MORICHES MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 297
- WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,124
- MORICHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 861
- EAST MORICHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 337
- EAST MORICHES SCHOOL1.9 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 586 students in grades KG-05.
Is CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
How diverse is CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 65% White, 27% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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