SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BRENTWOOD, New York, SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier elementary-level community, one of the schools within BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 533 students across grades 1 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% larger than the state mean of about 443.

Within BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 17 schools and 17,844 students, SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Other groups include 7% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) records that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 690 students in 2018 compared to 533 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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