SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the big elementary-level communitys in DIX HILLS, New York, overseen by HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 672 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 52% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 9 schools and 7,203 students, SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 65.9%, a residual of -1.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WEST is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 66.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 667 students in 2018 compared to 672 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment climbed from 13% to 19% over that span.

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