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Enrollment
656
Elementary
DISTRICT 507 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362469003355
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL
141 PHILLIPS AVE, RIVERHEAD, NY 11901 · (631) 369-6787 · Suffolk County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL656 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest 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
14.6:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
310 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 72 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 115 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 119 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 122 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (115) is 6% smaller than its 4th grade class (122).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL→PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
21.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
19.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.0% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 14.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
18.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-39.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 58% 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 PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL's state test result (18.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL this school | 656 | 47.3% | 18.4% |
| CLAREMONT SCHOOL OSSINING | 732 | 45.4% | 41.4% |
| WOODSIDE SCHOOL PEEKSKILL | 511 | 49.1% | N/A |
| THIELLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THIELLS | 706 | 52.0% | 40.5% |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL WHITE PLAINS | 602 | 46.7% | 39.3% |
| BROOKSIDE SCHOOL OSSINING | 672 | 44.3% | 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 PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.4% | #2,261 of 2,335 | #168 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #2,267 of 2,342 ▼ 41 | #169 of 169 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #2,278 of 2,343 ▼ 2 | #169 of 169 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 656 | #350 of 2,585 | #29 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,969 of 2,338 | #174 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.3% | #1,776 of 2,388 | #167 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.3% | #1,487 of 2,534 | #47 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.4% | #122 of 606 | #7 of 57 |
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
656
+135 (+26%) vs 2020
+59% since 1990-91, when it was 413
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 656 | 45 | 14.6:1 | 47% (310) |
| 2023-24 | 654 | 51.1 | 12.8:1 | 48% (311) |
| 2022-23 | 578 | 55.5 | 10.4:1 | 49% (286) |
| 2020-21 | 521 | 45 | 11.6:1 | 48% (251) |
| 2017-18 | 536 | 41.5 | 12.9:1 | 5% (26) |
| 2015-16 | 599 | 37 | 16.2:1 | 69% (412) |
| 2010-11 | 512 | 36 | 14.2:1 | 81% (413) |
| 2000-01 | 438 | 30 | 14.6:1 | 54% (237) |
| 1990-91 | 413 | 24 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL.
About PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in RIVERHEAD, New York. It enrolled 656 students in pre-K through 4 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 48% higher than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
In RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, 8 schools enroll a combined 5,547 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL, at 80%. Smaller groups are 12% White and 7% Black. For comparison, the population of Suffolk County is roughly 23% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 34%, meaning two students picked at random have a 34% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The teaching staff at PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL is 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 14.6:1. This ratio sits 1.7 above the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 47%.
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL is graded F by allk12, scoring above 1% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL are 39.2 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 18.4%, compared with a predicted 57.6%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in New York.
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL is located in Suffolk County, where the median household income is $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in the county.
ROANOKE AVENUE SCHOOL is the public school closest to PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL, about 1.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 7. PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL is 8th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The federal government classifies PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Small.
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment grew from 521 in 2020-21 to 656 in 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.6:1) than in 2020-21 (11.6:1).
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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 RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- RIVERHEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,927 students
- PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMiddle · 797 students
- RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 793 students
- RILEY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 520 students
- AQUEBOGUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 458 students
- ROANOKE AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 395 students
Other schools in RIVERHEAD
- RIVERHEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,927 students
- PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMiddle · 797 students
- RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 793 students
- ROANOKE AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 395 students
- SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICEHigh · 1 students
Nearby schools
- ROANOKE AVENUE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 395
- SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE1.2 mi · 1
- PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 797
- RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 793
- RIVERHEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,927
- AQUEBOGUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 458
Frequently asked questions
About PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL?
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 656 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL serve?
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL is approximately 14.6:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL?
At PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 12% White, 80% Hispanic, 7% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL public or private?
PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.