HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact primary school in RONKONKOMA, New York, part of CONNETQUOT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 313 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

CONNETQUOT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,227 students; HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 67.0%; actual is 44.2%, a gap of -22.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RONKONKOMA MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. HELEN B DUFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 313). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 16% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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