HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier primary schools in BAY SHORE, New York, overseen by BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 609 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 37% larger than that benchmark.

BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 17,844 students; HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Black, 5% Asian, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.2%.

Around the school, Suffolk County reports that median household earnings sit near $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%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 727 (now 609). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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