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What's one thing SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
599
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362820003808
SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
134 MAIN ST, SETAUKET, NY 11733 · (631) 730-4600 · Suffolk County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL599 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.4:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
64 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 74 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 9% larger than its 6th grade class (74).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
73.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
76.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
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 76 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 74.0% |
% 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
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 599 | 10.7% | 71.3% |
| EMILY WARREN ROEBLING SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 594 | 12.3% | 82.2% |
| BIRCH SCHOOL MERRICK | 588 | 6.1% | 76.2% |
| PS 107 JOHN W KIMBALL BROOKLYN | 537 | 8.2% | 84.3% |
| SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 527 | 10.1% | 70.6% |
| MINNESAUKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST SETAUKET | 644 | 13.8% | 74.0% |
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 SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #357 of 2,335 | #10 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #509 of 2,342 ▼ 47 | #17 of 169 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #447 of 2,343 ▼ 115 | #14 of 169 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 599 | #467 of 2,585 | #42 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #1,435 of 2,338 | #127 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.0% | #1,601 of 2,388 | #151 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.7% | #2,425 of 2,534 | #184 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #1,555 of 1,757 | #114 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
599
+40 (+7%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 915
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 599 | 48.1 | 12.4:1 | 11% (64) |
| 2023-24 | 604 | 47.3 | 12.8:1 | 9% (54) |
| 2022-23 | 604 | 51.9 | 11.6:1 | 10% (60) |
| 2020-21 | 559 | 52 | 10.8:1 | 9% (49) |
| 2017-18 | 623 | 49 | 12.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 44 | 14.5:1 | 4% (28) |
| 2010-11 | 775 | 60 | 12.9:1 | 2% (12) |
| 2000-01 | 937 | 57 | 16.4:1 | 2% (22) |
| 1990-91 | 915 | 54 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in SETAUKET, New York, according to federal school records. The school covers pre-K through 6 and reported 599 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 35% bigger than that mark.
THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It runs 8 schools with 5,629 students.
Of every 100 students at SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 76 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 7% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 66%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 40%.
The school had 48.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 12.4:1. That is in line with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 11%. The 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County is 28 points higher.
On the allk12 Grade, SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 76% of New York public elementary schools.
SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 71.3% is within a point of the 71.1% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
For the population of Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Suffolk County, 343 public schools serve about 222,439 students.
A public school about 0.7 miles away, PAUL J GELINAS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is the closest to SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 76.1% proficiency; SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 71.3%.
SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 599, up from 559 in 2020-21. The school's ratio increased from 10.8:1 to 12.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WARD MELVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,442 students
- ROBERT CUSHMAN MURPHY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
- PAUL J GELINAS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 651 students
- MINNESAUKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 644 students
- ARROWHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 562 students
- NASSAKEAG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 551 students
Nearby schools
- PAUL J GELINAS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 651
- MINNESAUKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 644
- PORT JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL2.1 mi · 224
- EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 313
- NASSAKEAG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 551
- WARD MELVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 1,442
Frequently asked questions
About SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 599 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.4:1 students per teacher at SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 76% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
SETAUKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.