OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized primary schools in WEST ISLIP, New York, operated by WEST ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 418 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 7 schools in WEST ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,816 students total), OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 4% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 66.7%; actual is 28.7%, a gap of -38.0 points.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is UDALL ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 424 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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