CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL

CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in PORT JEFFERSON STA, New York, run under BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 381 students in grades K through 2.

CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 3,448 students overall.

On demographics, CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 41% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the resource side, CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put median household earnings sit near $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 458 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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