Enrollment
257
Elementary
DISTRICT 321 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CONNETQUOT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360816000598
EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2460 SYCAMORE AVE, RONKONKOMA, NY 11779 · (631) 467-6040 · Suffolk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL257 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.6:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
58 students
DISTRICT 18% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 32 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (45).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
73.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp 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 73 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 63.0% |
% 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
55.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (55.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 257 | 22.6% | 55.4% |
| CHERRY LANE SCHOOL CARLE PLACE | 283 | 21.2% | N/A |
| HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RONKONKOMA | 313 | 21.7% | 44.2% |
| WEST NYACK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST NYACK | 304 | 20.7% | 58.1% |
| SIXTH AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 299 | 23.7% | 76.6% |
| MEADOW DRIVE SCHOOL ALBERTSON | 309 | 21.0% | N/A |
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 EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #941 of 2,335 | #65 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #594 of 2,342 ▲ 211 | #24 of 169 ▲ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,261 of 2,343 ▼ 256 | #77 of 169 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 257 | #2,207 of 2,585 | #190 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #1,101 of 2,338 | #94 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #542 of 2,388 | #37 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.6% | #2,161 of 2,534 | #134 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.9% | #549 of 1,757 | #16 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
257
-26 (-9%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 424
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 257 | 22.2 | 11.6:1 | 23% (58) |
| 2023-24 | 252 | 24.5 | 10.3:1 | 38% (95) |
| 2022-23 | 272 | 26.9 | 10.1:1 | 33% (89) |
| 2020-21 | 283 | 25 | 11.3:1 | 25% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 329 | 28 | 11.7:1 | 31% (103) |
| 2015-16 | 354 | 25 | 14.2:1 | 27% (96) |
| 2010-11 | 342 | 28 | 12.2:1 | 20% (70) |
| 2000-01 | 500 | 32 | 15.6:1 | 12% (59) |
| 1990-91 | 424 | 27 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is classified as an elementary school. It is located in RONKONKOMA, New York. Its 257 students are spread across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 42% smaller than the 443 average for elementary schools in New York.
The district, CONNETQUOT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, has 5,227 students enrolled across 10 schools.
A majority of students at EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 51%, are White. The remaining shares are 28% Hispanic, 15% Asian, and 4% Black. Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
Teachers at the school number 22.2 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.6:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. Roughly 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Suffolk County is 39%.
allk12 grades EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 55.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 66.7%.
Suffolk County has these Census figures: median household income is about $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The public schools of Suffolk County number 343 and enroll about 222,439.
The nearest other public school, HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th of 9 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.
The number of students declined from 283 to 257 over 4 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 CONNETQUOT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CONNETQUOT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,774 students
- RONKONKOMA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 641 students
- CHEROKEE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 618 students
- OAKDALE-BOHEMIA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 564 students
- SYCAMORE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 380 students
- HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 313 students
Other schools in RONKONKOMA
- RONKONKOMA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 641 students
- CHEROKEE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 618 students
- HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 313 students
Nearby schools
- HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 313
- RONKONKOMA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 641
- CHEROKEE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 618
- CONNETQUOT HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,774
- HIAWATHA SCHOOL2.0 mi · 541
- SAMOSET MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 847
Frequently asked questions
About EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 257 students in grades PK-05.
Is EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1.
What is the student diversity at EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 51% White, 28% Hispanic, 4% Black, 15% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
EDITH L SLOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by CONNETQUOT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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