SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a cozy primary school in SOUTHOLD, New York, one of the schools within SOUTHOLD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 304 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in SOUTHOLD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (637 students total), SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 38% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.7%; this one delivers 50.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Suffolk County shows median household earnings sit near $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SOUTHOLD JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.7%.

SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 17%, going from 366 students in 2018 to 304 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 33% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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