GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL

Set in BAY SHORE, New York, GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL is a roomy elementary campus, part of BAY SHORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 739 students across grades 3 through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL sits 67% above that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in BAY SHORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,529 students total), GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 21% White, 17% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 58.6%; this one comes in at 34.9%, -23.7 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL is one.

SOUTH COUNTRY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 739 students in 2018 compared to 739 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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