HIAWATHA SCHOOL

HIAWATHA SCHOOL is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in LAKE RONKONKOMA, New York, part of SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 541 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so HIAWATHA SCHOOL sits 22% bigger than that benchmark.

SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 11,556 students. HIAWATHA SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, HIAWATHA SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 32% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, HIAWATHA SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 60.7%; this one comes in at 40.3%, -20.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Suffolk County reports that median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. HIAWATHA SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

The closest other public school is NOKOMIS SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HIAWATHA SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HIAWATHA SCHOOL has edged down 5%, going from 570 students in 2018 to 541 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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