Enrollment
297
Elementary
DISTRICT 295 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUNTINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361509001264
JEFFERSON SCHOOL
253 OAKWOOD RD, HUNTINGTON, NY 11743 · (631) 673-2070 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL297 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
9.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
126 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 83 | 28% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 26% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 44.0% |
% 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
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 JEFFERSON SCHOOL
JEFFERSON SCHOOL's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEFFERSON SCHOOL this school | 297 | 42.4% | 41.5% |
| WASHINGTON SCHOOL HUNTINGTON STATION | 335 | 43.6% | 58.5% |
| SOUTHDOWN SCHOOL HUNTINGTON | 270 | 45.2% | 63.0% |
| VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST PATCHOGUE | 269 | 41.6% | 39.0% |
| BROOK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 336 | 42.3% | N/A |
| FLOWER HILL SCHOOL HUNTINGTON | 278 | 48.9% | 67.0% |
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 JEFFERSON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #1,544 of 2,335 | #104 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,567 of 2,342 ▼ 36 | #114 of 169 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,614 of 2,343 ▲ 106 | #107 of 169 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 297 | #2,010 of 2,585 | #177 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #394 of 2,338 | #36 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #883 of 2,388 | #84 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.4% | #1,623 of 2,534 | #68 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.4% | #839 of 1,757 | #41 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
297
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 343
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 10.1:1
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 | 297 | 30.2 | 9.8:1 | 42% (126) |
| 2023-24 | 292 | 30.8 | 9.5:1 | 50% (146) |
| 2022-23 | 286 | 27 | 10.6:1 | 57% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 294 | 29 | 10.1:1 | 57% (168) |
| 2017-18 | 351 | 28 | 12.5:1 | 56% (195) |
| 2015-16 | 356 | 27 | 13.2:1 | 61% (216) |
| 2010-11 | 425 | 35 | 12.1:1 | 42% (179) |
| 2000-01 | 346 | 26 | 13.3:1 | 38% (132) |
| 1990-91 | 343 | 26 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JEFFERSON SCHOOL.
About JEFFERSON SCHOOL
JEFFERSON SCHOOL is a small elementary school with an address in HUNTINGTON, New York. The school runs kindergarten through 3 and enrolls 297 students. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 33% below average.
Within HUNTINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, JEFFERSON SCHOOL is one of 8 schools. The district enrolls 3,995 students.
The share of Hispanic students at JEFFERSON SCHOOL is 57%, a majority. The remaining students are 33% White, 6% Black, and 3% Asian. Census figures show Suffolk County is about 23% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 57, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at JEFFERSON SCHOOL comes to 30.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.8:1. The school's 9.8:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. On the income side, 42% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Suffolk County average a similar 39%.
On the allk12 Grade, JEFFERSON SCHOOL lands at C, ahead of 25% of New York public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, JEFFERSON SCHOOL is 17.9 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 41.5% actual, 59.4% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Looking at the county, Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting JEFFERSON SCHOOL, Suffolk County has 343 public schools.
JEFFERSON SCHOOL is about 0.7 miles from HUNTINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, JEFFERSON SCHOOL is 7th of 8 on proficiency.
JEFFERSON SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 294 to 297.
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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 HUNTINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HUNTINGTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,363 students
- J TAYLOR FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 579 students
- JACK ABRAMS STEM MAGNET SCHOOLMiddle · 438 students
- WOODHULL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 435 students
- WASHINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 335 students
- FLOWER HILL SCHOOLElementary · 278 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
- JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 421 students
- LLOYD HARBOR SCHOOLElementary · 389 students
Other Jefferson schools
12 other US public schools in 8 states are named Jefferson. JEFFERSON SCHOOL is the 6th largest of the 13.
- JeffersonSacramento, CA · 735 students
- Jefferson SchoolJefferson, LA · 619 students
- JeffersonHawthorne, CA · 549 students
- JeffersonTracy, CA · 388 students
- Jefferson SchoolIndependence, KS · 356 students
Nearby schools
- HUNTINGTON HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,363
- HENRY L STIMSON MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 845
- JACK ABRAMS STEM MAGNET SCHOOL1.1 mi · 438
- OAKWOOD PRIMARY CENTER1.1 mi · 643
- WALT WHITMAN HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,939
- COLD SPRING HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 719
Frequently asked questions
About JEFFERSON SCHOOLHow large is JEFFERSON SCHOOL?
JEFFERSON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 297 students in grades KG-03.
Is JEFFERSON SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
JEFFERSON SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-03.
How many students per teacher at JEFFERSON SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.8:1 students per teacher at JEFFERSON SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at JEFFERSON SCHOOL?
At JEFFERSON SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 33% White, 57% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is JEFFERSON SCHOOL public or private?
JEFFERSON SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HUNTINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.