Enrollment
418
Elementary
DISTRICT 459 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363069004130
OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
425 SPRUCE AVE, WEST ISLIP, NY 11795 · (631) 504-5660 · Suffolk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL418 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
11.2:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
94 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
25.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 15.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
28.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-38.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 67% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (28.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 418 | 22.5% | 28.7% |
| SAG HARBOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAG HARBOR | 431 | 23.9% | 65.2% |
| PS 34 OLIVER H PERRY BROOKLYN | 435 | 23.0% | 83.8% |
| SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAINT JAMES | 461 | 22.3% | 54.8% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST ISLIP | 416 | 26.4% | 46.5% |
| MINISINK VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 454 | 18.3% | N/A |
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 OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #2,061 of 2,335 | #156 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,780 of 2,342 ▲ 110 | #136 of 169 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #2,219 of 2,343 ▲ 43 | #167 of 169 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 418 | #1,267 of 2,585 | #119 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #926 of 2,338 | #82 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.3% | #1,488 of 2,388 | #138 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.5% | #2,165 of 2,534 | #135 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.4% | #1,698 of 1,757 | #130 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
418
+21 (+5%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 343
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 418 | 37.4 | 11.2:1 | 22% (94) |
| 2023-24 | 419 | 35.4 | 11.8:1 | 20% (85) |
| 2022-23 | 397 | 35.8 | 11.1:1 | 21% (85) |
| 2020-21 | 397 | 35 | 11.3:1 | 18% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 424 | 31.6 | 13.4:1 | 18% (75) |
| 2015-16 | 456 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 16% (74) |
| 2010-11 | 341 | 25 | 13.6:1 | 9% (29) |
| 2000-01 | 472 | 27 | 17.5:1 | 7% (32) |
| 1990-91 | 343 | 18 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in WEST ISLIP, New York, (ZIP code 11795). The school's 418 students are in pre-K through 5.
WEST ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 7 schools and 3,816 students, including OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
White students make up a majority at OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at 72%. The remaining students are 21% Hispanic and 4% Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 43% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates with 37.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 11.2:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 11.2:1 here. OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 22% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is below the 39% average among public schools in Suffolk County.
allk12 grades OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 66.7%. It scores 28.7%, a bottom-10% result among New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Within Suffolk County, the median household income is $130,686, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. In all, Suffolk County has 343 public schools and roughly 222,439 students.
Of nearby public schools, UDALL ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On proficiency, OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is behind the 54.9% nearby average, ranking 9th of 9.
OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 5% from 2020-21, when OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 397 students, to 2024-25, when it had 418.
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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 WEST ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WEST ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,163 students
- MANETUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 514 students
- PAUL J BELLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 463 students
- BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 440 students
- UDALL ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 438 students
- BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 380 students
Other schools in WEST ISLIP
- WEST ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,163 students
- MANETUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 514 students
- PAUL J BELLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 463 students
- BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 440 students
- UDALL ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 438 students
- BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 380 students
Nearby schools
- UDALL ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 438
- MANETUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 514
- BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 380
- WEST ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,163
- GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL1.2 mi · 739
- MARION G VEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 409
Frequently asked questions
About OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 418 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 72% White, 21% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by WEST ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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