JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL operates as an average-sized K-5 school in DEER PARK, New York, operated by DEER PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 468 students spanning grades pre-K through 2.

DEER PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 4,054 students. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 24% White, 19% Asian, 18% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ROBERT FROST MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 487 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 37% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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