LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier elementary-level community in BRENTWOOD, New York, one of the schools within BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 639 students, covering grades 1 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 44% larger than typical.

Within BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 17 schools and 17,844 students, LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%); the rest reads as 7% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put median household income runs about $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 739 (now 639). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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