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Enrollment
421
Elementary
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361068000840
JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
286 CUBA HILL RD, HUNTINGTON, NY 11743 · (631) 266-5430 · Suffolk County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL421 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
111 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 137 | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 121 | 29% |
| Grade 5 | 159 | 38% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
76.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 70.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (69.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 421 | 26.4% | 69.0% |
| WEST END SCHOOL LYNBROOK | 386 | 23.1% | 75.5% |
| HEWLETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HEWLETT | 369 | 26.3% | 64.8% |
| WAVERLY AVENUE SCHOOL HOLTSVILLE | 497 | 24.9% | 45.3% |
| BRETTON WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAUPPAUGE | 509 | 24.0% | 70.1% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL GREAT NECK | 427 | 29.5% | 74.8% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #432 of 2,335 | #17 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #420 of 2,342 ▲ 149 | #15 of 169 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #352 of 2,343 ▲ 19 | #7 of 169 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 421 | #1,253 of 2,585 | #117 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #840 of 2,338 | #73 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.2% | #598 of 2,388 | #51 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.4% | #2,062 of 2,534 | #123 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.5% | #989 of 1,757 | #53 of 137 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
421
-1 (0%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 422
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 12.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 421 | 38.2 | 11.0:1 | 26% (111) |
| 2023-24 | 418 | 37.2 | 11.2:1 | 24% (101) |
| 2022-23 | 434 | 40.1 | 10.8:1 | 18% (80) |
| 2020-21 | 422 | 34 | 12.4:1 | 24% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 481 | 36 | 13.4:1 | 25% (122) |
| 2015-16 | 525 | 36 | 14.6:1 | 22% (116) |
| 2010-11 | 564 | 37 | 15.2:1 | 16% (93) |
| 2000-01 | 595 | 37 | 16.1:1 | 13% (76) |
| 1990-91 | 422 | 31 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Families in HUNTINGTON, New York, are served by JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 421 students across grades 3 through 5.
A total of 4 schools make up ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 1,933 students enrolled.
White students are the majority at JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 55% of enrollment. Other groups make up 24% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 5% Black, and 5% multiracial. Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school's share is lower. The school's diversity index is 62%, meaning two students picked at random have a 62% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.0:1, with 38.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 1.8 students per teacher below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 26% of enrollment. Public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 76% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 69.0% is 3.7 points above the 65.3% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Suffolk County has these Census figures: the median household income is $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. In all, Suffolk County has 343 public schools and roughly 222,439 students.
The shortest distance from JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.6 miles, to ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 3rd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (422) and 2024-25 (421). The school's ratio fell from 12.4:1 to 11.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 677 students
- ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 425 students
- HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 410 students
Other schools in HUNTINGTON
- HUNTINGTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,363 students
- OAKWOOD PRIMARY CENTERElementary · 643 students
- J TAYLOR FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 579 students
- WOODHULL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 435 students
- LLOYD HARBOR SCHOOLElementary · 389 students
- JEFFERSON SCHOOLElementary · 297 students
Nearby schools
- ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 677
- ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 425
- HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 410
- THOMAS J LAHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 602
- HARBORFIELDS HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 923
- BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 669
Frequently asked questions
About JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 421 students in grades 03-05.
Is JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades 03-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.0:1 (38 FTE teachers).
How diverse is JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 55% White, 24% Hispanic, 5% Black, 10% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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