RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL

Set in CALVERTON, New York, RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL is an average-sized primary school, overseen by RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 520 students across grades pre-K through 4.

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

Demographically, RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 43% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 63.0%; this one comes in at 42.5%, -20.5 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Suffolk County reports that median household income runs about $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RIVERHEAD CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 541 (now 520). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 33% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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