Enrollment
304
Elementary
DISTRICT 319 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTHOLD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362762003750
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
420 OAKLAWN AVE, SOUTHOLD, NY 11971 · (631) 765-5400 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL304 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
8.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
110 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 30 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 54 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (30) is 44% smaller than its 6th grade class (54).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→SOUTHOLD JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SOUTHOLD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
55.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 55.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
50.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (50.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 304 | 36.2% | 50.1% |
| NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 316 | 34.5% | N/A |
| EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWBURGH | 339 | 34.8% | 56.1% |
| BOYLE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 306 | 31.0% | 41.3% |
| RUTH C KINNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ISLIP TERRACE | 314 | 40.1% | 47.3% |
| WEST GATES AVENUE SCHOOL LINDENHURST | 303 | 40.3% | 48.3% |
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 SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.1% | #1,161 of 2,335 | #76 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,266 of 2,342 ▲ 345 | #88 of 169 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,271 of 2,343 ▼ 295 | #79 of 169 ▼ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 304 | #1,972 of 2,585 | #172 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.1:1 | #69 of 2,338 | #8 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.9% | #1,292 of 2,388 | #116 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.2% | #1,806 of 2,534 | #90 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.9% | #763 of 1,757 | #30 of 137 |
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
304
-29 (-9%) vs 2020
+58% since 1990-91, when it was 192
Student : Teacher
8.1:1
was 8.5:1
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 | 304 | 37.4 | 8.1:1 | 36% (110) |
| 2023-24 | 312 | 33.9 | 9.2:1 | 29% (90) |
| 2022-23 | 317 | 36.8 | 8.6:1 | 35% (111) |
| 2020-21 | 333 | 39 | 8.5:1 | 34% (112) |
| 2017-18 | 366 | 35 | 10.5:1 | 33% (122) |
| 2015-16 | 384 | 40 | 9.6:1 | 32% (124) |
| 2010-11 | 454 | 48 | 9.5:1 | 14% (64) |
| 2000-01 | 517 | 37 | 14.0:1 | 6% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 192 | 7 | 27.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school with its address in SOUTHOLD, New York. In all, 304 students attend the school in kindergarten through 6. That puts enrollment 31% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by SOUTHOLD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 2 schools enroll 637 students.
More than half of enrollment at SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White: 61%. Next come 38% Hispanic. The diversity index for SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 49%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 37.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 8.1:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 4.7 more students per teacher than here. SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 36%.
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 43% of New York public elementary schools.
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 50.1% is 11.6 points below the 61.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Suffolk County show that median household income comes to about $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county's public schools total 343, with about 222,439 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, SOUTHOLD JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles. There are 5 other public schools within five miles. SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 7th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale: Suburb: Small. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The school shrank from 333 students in 2020-21 to 304 in 2024-25.
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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 SOUTHOLD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SOUTHOLD JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 333 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTHOLD JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 333
- MATTITUCK-CUTCHOGUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 457
- GREENPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.3 mi · 327
- GREENPORT HIGH SCHOOL4.3 mi · 358
- SHELTER ISLAND SCHOOL4.8 mi · 183
- NEW SUFFOLK SCHOOL5.1 mi · 8
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 304 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 8.1:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 61% White, 38% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SOUTHOLD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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