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Enrollment
654
Elementary
DISTRICT 669 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMPTON BAYS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361353001107
HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
72 PONQUOGUE AVE, HAMPTON BAYS, NY 11946 · (631) 723-2121 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL654 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% 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
10.1:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
81 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 118 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 129 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 137 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 155 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 31% smaller than its 4th grade class (155).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within HAMPTON BAYS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
46.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -11.0pp since 2023
Math
60.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 68.0% |
% 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
57.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (57.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 654 | 12.4% | 57.8% |
| SPRINGS SCHOOL EAST HAMPTON | 690 | 0.4% | 56.7% |
| JOHN M MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST HAMPTON | 517 | 29.6% | 41.6% |
| MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PATCHOGUE | 513 | 32.2% | 35.5% |
| CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PATCHOGUE | 596 | 34.9% | 35.7% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BREWSTER | 592 | 35.8% | 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 HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.8% | #856 of 2,335 | #60 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #1,077 of 2,342 ▼ 442 | #73 of 169 ▼ 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,513 of 2,343 ▼ 881 | #99 of 169 ▼ 66 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 654 | #352 of 2,585 | #30 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #472 of 2,338 | #42 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.1% | #1,497 of 2,388 | #139 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.4% | #2,397 of 2,534 | #176 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.3% | #1,263 of 1,757 | #81 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
654
+4 (+1%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 665
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 654 | 64.8 | 10.1:1 | 12% (81) |
| 2023-24 | 665 | 60.8 | 10.9:1 | 61% (407) |
| 2022-23 | 682 | 57.8 | 11.8:1 | 55% (378) |
| 2020-21 | 650 | 58 | 11.2:1 | 55% (356) |
| 2017-18 | 713 | 57 | 12.5:1 | 59% (418) |
| 2015-16 | 791 | 59 | 13.4:1 | 60% (472) |
| 2010-11 | 725 | 55 | 13.2:1 | 44% (322) |
| 2000-01 | 901 | 66 | 13.7:1 | 19% (168) |
| 1990-91 | 665 | 43 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in HAMPTON BAYS, New York. The school's 654 students are in kindergarten through 4. Enrollment is 48% higher than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
The 3 schools in HAMPTON BAYS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT enroll 2,008 students altogether, HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
At 70%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. The school is also 29% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 23%. The chance that two students picked at random at HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 43%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1 at HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 64.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 12%. For comparison, public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 49% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 70.4%. HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 57.8%.
Among Suffolk County residents, median household income is about $130,686, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County, which together enroll about 222,439 students.
The shortest distance from HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to HAMPTON BAYS MIDDLE SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes 3 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 650 in 2020-21, 654 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 11.2:1 to 10.1:1.
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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 HAMPTON BAYS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HAMPTON BAYS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 784 students
- HAMPTON BAYS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 570 students
Other schools in HAMPTON BAYS
- HAMPTON BAYS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 784 students
- HAMPTON BAYS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 570 students
Nearby schools
- HAMPTON BAYS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 570
- HAMPTON BAYS HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 784
- EAST QUOGUE SCHOOL3.9 mi · 381
- QUOGUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.6 mi · 92
- TUCKAHOE SCHOOL5.7 mi · 249
- SOUTHAMPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.0 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 654 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 10.1:1 (65 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 29% White, 70% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HAMPTON BAYS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.