CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of expansive scale in CORAM, New York, overseen by LONGWOOD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 951 students in grades K through 4. That puts it 115% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

LONGWOOD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 8,787 students. CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 25% Hispanic, 22% Black, 12% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.9%; this one comes in at 35.1%, -22.7 points off the demographic 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 roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WEST MIDDLE ISLAND SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 1,101 students in 2018 compared to 951 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 31% to 25% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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