Enrollment
338
Elementary
DISTRICT 448 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362706005431
MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
246 MORICHES RD, ST JAMES, NY 11780 · (631) 382-4305 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL338 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
58 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
75.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
72.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 65.0% |
% 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
66.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (66.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 338 | 17.2% | 66.3% |
| PORT JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON | 370 | 18.1% | 59.7% |
| SYCAMORE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOHEMIA | 380 | 17.1% | 44.8% |
| LEE ROAD SCHOOL WANTAGH | 312 | 13.8% | 66.4% |
| MANDALAY SCHOOL WANTAGH | 321 | 15.0% | 72.4% |
| PARK AVENUE SCHOOL NORTH MERRICK | 324 | 16.7% | 59.3% |
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 MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #514 of 2,335 | #24 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #636 of 2,342 ▲ 105 | #31 of 169 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #386 of 2,343 ▲ 198 | #10 of 169 ▲ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 338 | #1,746 of 2,585 | #156 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #1,488 of 2,338 | #134 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.4% | #1,484 of 2,388 | #136 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.2% | #2,297 of 2,534 | #154 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.1% | #801 of 1,757 | #35 of 137 |
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
338
-31 (-8%) vs 2020
-35% since 2010-11, when it was 519
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 338 | 26.9 | 12.6:1 | 17% (58) |
| 2023-24 | 357 | 31.2 | 11.4:1 | 13% (46) |
| 2022-23 | 372 | 34.2 | 10.9:1 | 12% (43) |
| 2020-21 | 369 | 30 | 12.3:1 | 8% (29) |
| 2017-18 | 403 | 31.2 | 12.9:1 | 8% (33) |
| 2015-16 | 445 | 25 | 17.8:1 | 8% (36) |
| 2010-11 | 519 | 36 | 14.4:1 | 4% (21) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Families in ST JAMES, New York, are served by MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary school. Enrolled students number 338 students, in kindergarten through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL along with 11 other schools, enrolling 7,437 students in total.
By race and ethnicity, MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 73% White. The rest of enrollment is 15% Hispanic, 7% Asian, and 3% multiracial. MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 43%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 26.9 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 12.6:1. Elementary schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 12.8:1. The school counts 58 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 17%. Public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
allk12 grades MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In New York, MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 66.3% actual against a predicted 68.7%.
Suffolk County has these Census figures: median household income is about $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The public schools of Suffolk County number 343 and enroll about 222,439.
The closest other public school is SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.1 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 9.
MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL went from 369 students to 338.
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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 SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,403 students
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL-WESTHigh · 1,158 students
- GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 750 students
- ACCOMPSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- ACCOMPSETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 522 students
- SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 517 students
Nearby schools
- SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 461
- WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 525
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST1.4 mi · 1,403
- EUGENE AUER MEMORIAL SCHOOL1.5 mi · 308
- ROBERT CUSHMAN MURPHY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 655
- NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 338 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 73% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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