GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized K-5 school in COPIAGUE, New York, one of the schools within COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 428 students in grades K through 5.

COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,579 students. GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%; the rest breaks down as 23% Black, 7% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 54.1%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

Nearest neighbor: SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 47.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 31%, going from 621 students in 2018 to 428 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 12% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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