SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a heavily attended elementary-level community in BAY SHORE, New York, SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 975 students from grades K through 5, operated by BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 120% above the state mean of about 443.

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

On demographics, SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 11% Black, 6% White, 5% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.8%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of -16.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,177 (now 975). Class-load math has fell: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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