NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL

NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL, a tight-knit primary school in PORT JEFFERSON STA, New York, one of the schools within BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 316 students, covering grades K through 3. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,448 students; NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 39% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 34% of students at NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, Suffolk County reports that median household earnings sit near $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WARD MELVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 356 (now 316). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 32% to 39%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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