REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 31 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a very small elementary school in REMSENBURG, New York, part of REMSENBURG-SPEONK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 119 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 73% smaller than that benchmark.
Operationally, REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL answers to REMSENBURG-SPEONK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
Looking at the student body, REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Suffolk County as a whole.
On the resource side, On paper, REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.6%, the actual is 60.1%, a residual of -11.5 points.
Around the school, census data for Suffolk County shows 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. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: EASTPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.0%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Over the past 7-year window. REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 140 (now 119). Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 24% across the same window.
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