PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary campus in SMITHTOWN, New York, part of HAUPPAUGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 498 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

HAUPPAUGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,112 students. PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Suffolk County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 14% of students at PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.8%, the actual is 66.8%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

The closest other public school is WOOD PARK SCHOOL, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 14%: 435 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 75% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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