COUNTRYWOOD PRIMARY CENTER

Located at 499 OLD COUNTRY RD, in HUNTINGTON STATION, New York, COUNTRYWOOD PRIMARY CENTER is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that enrolls 572 students (grades K through 2), operated by SOUTH HUNTINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so COUNTRYWOOD PRIMARY CENTER sits 29% above that benchmark.

COUNTRYWOOD PRIMARY CENTER is one of 7 schools operated by SOUTH HUNTINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 5,670 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, COUNTRYWOOD PRIMARY CENTER records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 33% White, 7% Black, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, COUNTRYWOOD PRIMARY CENTER lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Around the school, Suffolk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which COUNTRYWOOD PRIMARY CENTER is one.

HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WEST is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around COUNTRYWOOD PRIMARY CENTER.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. COUNTRYWOOD PRIMARY CENTER's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 610 (now 572).

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