MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL

Located at 44 E CHERRY ST, in CENTRAL ISLIP, New York, MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized K-5 school that enrolls 567 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 28% above typical.

MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL is one of 8 schools operated by CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 7,773 students overall.

In terms of who attends, MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL logs that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 10% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 62% of students at MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.2%; this one delivers 33.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household income runs about $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

FRANCIS J O'NEILL SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 645 students in 2018 compared to 567 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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