IDLE HOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in OAKDALE, New York, IDLE HOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate elementary school, run under CONNETQUOT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 218 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 51% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within CONNETQUOT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 10 schools and 5,227 students, IDLE HOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, IDLE HOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder reads as 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 6% of students at IDLE HOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, IDLE HOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household earnings sit near $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), IDLE HOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

OAKDALE-BOHEMIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IDLE HOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IDLE HOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has climbed 5%, going from 207 students in 2018 to 218 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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