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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
461
Elementary
DISTRICT 448 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362706003689
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
580 LAKE AVE, SAINT JAMES, NY 11780 · (631) 382-4455 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL461 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
103 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 81 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 27% larger than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
58.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 62.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (54.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 461 | 22.3% | 54.8% |
| SOUND BEACH SCHOOL MILLER PLACE | 476 | 21.8% | 39.3% |
| PS 34 OLIVER H PERRY BROOKLYN | 435 | 23.0% | 83.8% |
| OQUENOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST ISLIP | 418 | 22.5% | 28.7% |
| FAIRBANKS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHURCHVILLE | 460 | 21.7% | 53.8% |
| RJ O INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL KINGS PARK | 439 | 17.1% | 60.7% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #971 of 2,335 | #68 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,202 of 2,342 ▼ 329 | #84 of 169 ▼ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,041 of 2,343 ▼ 149 | #65 of 169 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 461 | #1,020 of 2,585 | #97 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #1,387 of 2,338 | #123 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.2% | #1,595 of 2,388 | #150 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.3% | #2,170 of 2,534 | #136 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.7% | #826 of 1,757 | #39 of 137 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
461
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 604
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 461 | 37.5 | 12.3:1 | 22% (103) |
| 2023-24 | 464 | 40.4 | 11.5:1 | 16% (72) |
| 2022-23 | 474 | 35.5 | 13.4:1 | 15% (70) |
| 2020-21 | 472 | 34 | 13.9:1 | 12% (58) |
| 2017-18 | 547 | 43.2 | 12.7:1 | 10% (57) |
| 2015-16 | 588 | 35 | 16.8:1 | 9% (53) |
| 2010-11 | 503 | 33 | 15.2:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2000-01 | 752 | 47 | 16.0:1 | 4% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 604 | 38 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A mid-sized elementary school in SAINT JAMES, New York, SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 461 students in 2024-25.
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls under SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 12 schools enrolling 7,437 students.
At SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 75% of students are White. It is also 16% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Suffolk County is roughly 66% White. The diversity index for SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 40%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reported 37.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 12.3:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 12.8:1. By family income, 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 47% of New York public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would be expected to post about 66.8%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 54.8%.
In Suffolk County, home to about 1,530,146 people, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Suffolk County with 342 other public schools.
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 1.0 miles from SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 54.8% compares with 62.4% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 472 in 2020-21, 461 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.9:1 to 12.3:1 over the same years.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,403 students
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL-WESTHigh · 1,158 students
- GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 750 students
- ACCOMPSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- ACCOMPSETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 522 students
- SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 517 students
Other schools in SAINT JAMES
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,403 students
- NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 466 students
Nearby schools
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST1.0 mi · 1,403
- MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 338
- NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 466
- WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 525
- DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 350
- ROBERT CUSHMAN MURPHY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.4 mi · 655
Frequently asked questions
About SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 461 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.3:1 (38 FTE teachers).
How diverse is SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 75% White, 16% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.