Enrollment
381
Elementary
DISTRICT 415 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361626001464
FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
39 SUNKEN MEADOW RD, NORTHPORT, NY 11768 · (631) 269-3364 · Suffolk County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL381 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 77% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
11.9:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
33 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 27% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
79.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 74.0% |
% 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
72.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (72.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 381 | 8.7% | 72.5% |
| FOREST LAKE SCHOOL WANTAGH | 390 | 6.7% | 65.5% |
| FIFTH AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST NORTHPORT | 377 | 7.2% | 63.4% |
| SEA CLIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEA CLIFF | 361 | 8.0% | 81.7% |
| WILSON SCHOOL ROCKVILLE CENTRE | 387 | 5.9% | 73.4% |
| KATONAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KATONAH | 405 | 8.6% | 78.5% |
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 FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.5% | #316 of 2,335 | #9 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #381 of 2,342 ▲ 74 | #10 of 169 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #534 of 2,343 ▼ 205 | #19 of 169 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 381 | #1,478 of 2,585 | #135 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #1,219 of 2,338 | #110 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.1% | #1,691 of 2,388 | #156 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.7% | #2,453 of 2,534 | #189 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.1% | #1,136 of 1,757 | #72 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
381
-15 (-4%) vs 2020
-36% since 2000-01, when it was 598
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 381 | 32.1 | 11.9:1 | 9% (33) |
| 2023-24 | 390 | 31.8 | 12.3:1 | 10% (39) |
| 2022-23 | 390 | 31.8 | 12.3:1 | 11% (44) |
| 2020-21 | 396 | 34 | 11.7:1 | 13% (50) |
| 2017-18 | 424 | 29 | 14.6:1 | 13% (53) |
| 2015-16 | 420 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 11% (47) |
| 2010-11 | 543 | 40 | 13.6:1 | 4% (23) |
| 2000-01 | 598 | 40 | 14.9:1 | 2% (11) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in NORTHPORT, New York, under KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment is 381 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 3.
FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a system of 5 schools with 2,656 students.
FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 78% White by enrollment. Other students are 14% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County residents are about 66% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 37% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL total 32.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.9:1. That is 1.0 students per teacher below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 9%. The gap from the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County is 30 points.
The allk12 Grade for FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is A-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 77% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is within a point of the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 72.5% actual, 71.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
According to the American Community Survey, in Suffolk County, the median household income is $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 1.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 1st out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment is down 4% from 2020-21, when FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 396 students, to 2024-25, when it had 381.
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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 KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 823 students
- WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 588 students
- RJ O INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 439 students
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 425 students
Other schools in NORTHPORT
- NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,476 students
- NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOLElementary · 694 students
- NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 416 students
- OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 346 students
Nearby schools
- NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 694
- FIFTH AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 377
- RJ O INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL2.1 mi · 439
- WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 588
- NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 416
- EAST NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 633
Frequently asked questions
About FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 381 students in grades PK-03.
What grades does FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.9:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 78% White, 14% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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