NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a substantial primary school in SELDEN, New York, operated by MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 771 students spanning grades 1 through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 74% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 14 schools in MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (9,410 students total), NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 35% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.6%; NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 30.3%, -24.4 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Suffolk County reports that median household earnings sit near $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. NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

BICYCLE PATH KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 10%: 859 students in 2018 compared to 771 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 53% to 44% over that span.

Inside the community feed, the feed for NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.