OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOL

OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOL is one of the tight-knit elementary schools in NORTHPORT, New York, overseen by NORTHPORT-EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 346 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 443.

Within NORTHPORT-EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 4,293 students, OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.5%, the actual is 69.4%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

Nearest neighbor: NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 64.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 339 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.