SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER

SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER is a tight-knit junior high in HUNTINGTON STATION, New York, overseen by SOUTH HUNTINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 418 students in grade 6. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

SOUTH HUNTINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 5,670 students; SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER is among them.

In terms of who attends, SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 35% White, 6% Asian, 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, SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.5%.

Around the school, Suffolk County reports that median household earnings sit near $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

WALT WHITMAN HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.6%.

SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. SILAS WOOD 6TH GRADE CENTER's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 418). Hispanic enrollment moved from 45% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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