PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in RIVERHEAD, New York, PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large junior high, operated by RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 797 students across grades 5 through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 50% larger than that benchmark.

RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,547 students; PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 25% White, 7% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.5%; PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 25.9%, -30.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 3%, going from 821 students in 2018 to 797 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 48% to 65%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.