JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in HUNTINGTON, New York, one of the schools within ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 421 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,933 students; JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 66.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 12%, going from 481 students in 2018 to 421 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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