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Enrollment
428
Elementary
DISTRICT 307 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR CSD·NCES 360012504330
DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL
151 DAYTON AVE, MANORVILLE, NY 11949 · (631) 801-3083 · Suffolk County
GRADES 03–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL428 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% 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.
- C-Beats 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
9.1:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
135 students
DISTRICT 27% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 104 | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 24% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 22% |
| Grade 6 | 116 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 10 | 2% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL→EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR CSD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
48.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
47.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL
DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL's state test result (47.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL this school | 428 | 31.5% | 47.3% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST ISLIP | 416 | 26.4% | 46.5% |
| GRUNDY AVENUE SCHOOL HOLBROOK | 452 | 27.9% | 38.5% |
| LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW PALTZ | 368 | 30.4% | 59.5% |
| MERRIMAC SCHOOL HOLBROOK | 358 | 30.4% | 48.0% |
| TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLBROOK | 421 | 27.6% | 58.0% |
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 DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #1,279 of 2,335 | #83 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,520 of 2,342 ▼ 100 | #104 of 169 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,252 of 2,343 ▼ 69 | #75 of 169 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 428 | #1,212 of 2,585 | #110 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.1:1 | #189 of 2,338 | #21 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.4% | #1,412 of 2,388 | #130 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.5% | #1,934 of 2,534 | #106 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.5% | #930 of 1,757 | #47 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
428
-31 (-7%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 584
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 428 | 47 | 9.1:1 | 32% (135) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 43.3 | 9.5:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 41.7 | 9.9:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 34 | 13.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 495 | 39 | 12.7:1 | 26% (127) |
| 2015-16 | 503 | 40 | 12.6:1 | 23% (115) |
| 2010-11 | 584 | 37 | 15.8:1 | 14% (79) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL.
About DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL
In MANORVILLE, New York, part of Suffolk County, DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL is an elementary school. It teaches 428 students in grades 3 through 6.
DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL is one of the 5 schools that make up EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR CSD (2,697 students in total).
Of every 100 students at DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL, about 70 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 25% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. Among Suffolk County residents, the White share is about 66%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL scores 45%.
Staffing at DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL comes to 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.1:1. The school's 9.1:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. On the income side, 32% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL lands at C, ahead of 34% of New York public elementary schools.
DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 47.3% and a predicted 63.4%.
For Suffolk County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $130,686, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county has 343 public schools and about 222,439 students.
EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits about 0.6 miles from DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL. DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL comes in 4th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decrease of 31 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.5:1 to 9.1:1 over the same years.
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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 EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR CSD
- EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,469 students
- EASTPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 302 students
- SOUTH STREET SCHOOLElementary · 265 students
- TUTTLE AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 233 students
Other schools in MANORVILLE
- EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,469 students
- SOUTH STREET SCHOOLElementary · 265 students
Nearby schools
- EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,469
- SOUTH STREET SCHOOL1.2 mi · 265
- WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL2.1 mi · 1,124
- MORICHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 861
- CENTER MORICHES MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 297
- CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 511
Frequently asked questions
About DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOLHow large is DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL?
DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 428 students in grades 03-06.
What grades does DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL serve?
DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL serves grades 03-06.
How many teachers does DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL have?
DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1:1.
What is the student diversity at DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL are roughly 70% White, 25% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL?
DAYTON AVENUE SCHOOL is overseen by EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR CSD in Suffolk County.
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