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Enrollment
671
Elementary
DISTRICT 700 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360528000251
LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
48 SWAN LN, BRENTWOOD, NY 11717 · (631) 434-2464 · Suffolk County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL671 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
14.2:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
598 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 1 | 126 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 135 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 153 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 123 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 20% |
This year's 1st grade class (126) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (134).
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
31.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
38.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
28.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (28.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 671 | 89.1% | 28.0% |
| LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 639 | 90.6% | 34.5% |
| OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 678 | 88.8% | 25.7% |
| PS 81 JEAN PAUL RICHTER GLENDALE | 657 | 91.3% | 43.6% |
| PS 173 NEW YORK | 597 | 88.4% | 35.9% |
| COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW ROCHELLE | 728 | 86.3% | 44.4% |
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 LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #2,082 of 2,335 | #161 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,911 of 2,342 ▲ 123 | #144 of 169 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #2,097 of 2,343 ▲ 90 | #159 of 169 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 671 | #314 of 2,585 | #25 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #1,910 of 2,338 | #171 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.8% | #2,105 of 2,388 | #197 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.1% | #452 of 2,534 | #2 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.8% | #573 of 606 | #53 of 57 |
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
671
+54 (+9%) vs 2020
+34% since 1990-91, when it was 500
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 671 | 47.3 | 14.2:1 | 89% (598) |
| 2023-24 | 622 | 49 | 12.7:1 | 89% (556) |
| 2022-23 | 665 | 45.2 | 14.7:1 | 88% (583) |
| 2020-21 | 617 | 44 | 14.0:1 | 90% (553) |
| 2017-18 | 666 | 41 | 16.2:1 | 89% (594) |
| 2015-16 | 644 | 37 | 17.4:1 | 88% (569) |
| 2010-11 | 564 | 38 | 14.8:1 | 79% (447) |
| 2000-01 | 610 | 37 | 16.5:1 | 80% (490) |
| 1990-91 | 500 | 42 | 11.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in BRENTWOOD, New York, according to federal school records. The school covers grades 1 through 5 and reported 671 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 51% bigger than the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 17 schools and 17,844 students, including LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
By race and ethnicity, LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 89% Hispanic. Other groups make up 6% Black and 4% White. Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 20% means there is a 20% chance two randomly chosen students at LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio at LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 14.2:1, based on 47.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is lower. LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 89% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 39% for public schools in Suffolk County.
LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 14% of New York public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 14.2 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Suffolk County show that median household income comes to about $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county's public schools total 343, with about 222,439 students.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 38.7% on proficiency, and LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is below that at 28.0%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment increased by 9% across 4 years, from 617 in 2020-21 to 671 in 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 BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,816 students
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CAMPUSHigh · 1,287 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,108 students
- NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,051 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 975 students
- SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 975 students
Other schools in BRENTWOOD
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,816 students
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CAMPUSHigh · 1,287 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,108 students
- NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,051 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 975 students
- NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 937 students
Other Laurel Park Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Laurel Park Elementary. LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Laurel Park ElementaryApex, NC · 694 students
Nearby schools
- LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 639
- SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 533
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 975
- OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 678
- COMMACK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 422
- EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 671 students in grades 01-05.
Is LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades 01-05.
How many teachers does LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
How diverse is LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 4% White, 89% Hispanic, 6% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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