FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in BELLPORT, New York, run under SOUTH COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 542 students in grades 4 through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits 22% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in SOUTH COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,798 students total), FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 27% White, 16% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.2%; actual is 28.2%, a gap of -26.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household income runs about $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%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BELLPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 644 (now 542). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 39% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.