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Enrollment
517
Elementary
DISTRICT 448 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362706003686
SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
51 LAWRENCE AVE, SMITHTOWN, NY 11787 · (631) 382-4505 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL517 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% 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.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
11.2:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
98 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 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is 23% larger than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
48%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
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
68.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 68.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
58.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (58.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 517 | 19.0% | 58.0% |
| CENTRAL SCHOOL LARCHMONT | 520 | 17.1% | 74.5% |
| ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MASSAPEQUA | 536 | 16.6% | 65.8% |
| THOMAS J LAHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENLAWN | 602 | 16.9% | 66.2% |
| BRINCKERHOFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FISHKILL | 545 | 20.2% | 68.9% |
| MANETUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST ISLIP | 514 | 17.3% | 40.0% |
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 SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #835 of 2,335 | #58 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #783 of 2,342 ▲ 300 | #48 of 169 ▲ 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #868 of 2,343 ▼ 65 | #49 of 169 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 517 | #745 of 2,585 | #70 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #911 of 2,338 | #80 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.4% | #1,313 of 2,388 | #119 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.0% | #2,261 of 2,534 | #151 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.7% | #183 of 606 | #12 of 57 |
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
517
+51 (+11%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 369
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 517 | 46.4 | 11.2:1 | 19% (98) |
| 2023-24 | 493 | 41 | 12.0:1 | 17% (82) |
| 2022-23 | 514 | 45.7 | 11.3:1 | 14% (72) |
| 2020-21 | 466 | 33 | 14.1:1 | 12% (56) |
| 2017-18 | 447 | 37.2 | 12.0:1 | 16% (70) |
| 2015-16 | 459 | 27 | 17.0:1 | 13% (60) |
| 2010-11 | 611 | 41 | 14.9:1 | 7% (41) |
| 2000-01 | 616 | 38 | 16.2:1 | 3% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 369 | 23 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in SMITHTOWN, New York, (ZIP code 11787). It serves 517 students in kindergarten through 5.
SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which runs SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, has 12 schools and 7,437 students.
By race and ethnicity, SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 68% White. The rest of enrollment is 21% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. The White share in Suffolk County as a whole is similar, at about 66%. The chance that two students picked at random at SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 48%.
The teaching staff at SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 46.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 11.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. About 19% of students, or 98, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 20 points below the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County.
SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 52% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is -10.0 points: 58.0% actual, 68.0% predicted.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Suffolk County show that median household income is about $130,686, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County, which together enroll about 222,439 students.
Nearest public school: DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away. The five-mile area around SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on proficiency.
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.
The student count in 2024-25 was 517, 11% above the 466 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.2:1, from 14.1:1.
The discussion area below is open to posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- MOUNT PLEASANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 479 students
Other schools in SMITHTOWN
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL-WESTHigh · 1,158 students
- ACCOMPSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- ACCOMPSETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 522 students
- PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
- MOUNT PLEASANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 479 students
- DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 350 students
Nearby schools
- DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 350
- MOUNT PLEASANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 479
- NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 466
- FOREST BROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 342
- GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 750
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST1.9 mi · 1,403
Frequently asked questions
About SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 517 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 68% White, 21% Hispanic, 1% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.