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CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in CENTRAL ISLIP, New York, one of the schools within CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 490 students in grades K through 6.
CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 7,773 students. CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 11% Black. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 51.5%; this one comes in at 28.8%, -22.7 points off the demographic line.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household earnings sit near $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).
Nearest neighbor: SOUTH SHORE CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.1%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Five-year trend. CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 20% since 2018, when it stood at 616 (now 490). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.
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