SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a moderately sized elementary school in SAINT JAMES, New York, SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 461 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 12 schools and 7,437 students, SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 16% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.8%; this one delivers 54.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Suffolk County shows median household earnings sit near $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%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 547 (now 461). The White share of enrollment shrank from 84% to 75% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.