LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in SAYVILLE, New York, one of the schools within SAYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 428 students in grades pre-K through 5.

SAYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,586 students. LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

In terms of school funding signals, LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.6%, the actual is 64.8%, a residual of -5.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SAYVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 72.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 425 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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