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Enrollment
538
Elementary
DISTRICT 619 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361329004246
SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
515 SWEET HOLLOW RD, MELVILLE, NY 11747 · (631) 592-3750 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL538 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
11.7:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
129 students
DISTRICT 27% · 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 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
66.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 70.0% |
% 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
65.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (65.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 538 | 24.0% | 65.6% |
| SAWMILL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL COMMACK | 550 | 20.9% | 56.7% |
| PS 199 JESSIE ISADOR STRAUS NEW YORK | 570 | 23.9% | 78.6% |
| GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL LEVITTOWN | 542 | 22.1% | 57.3% |
| ARROWHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST SETAUKET | 562 | 19.8% | 55.0% |
| BRETTON WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAUPPAUGE | 509 | 24.0% | 70.1% |
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 SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #542 of 2,335 | #27 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #669 of 2,342 ▼ 97 | #32 of 169 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #692 of 2,343 ▼ 117 | #37 of 169 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 538 | #679 of 2,585 | #61 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #1,142 of 2,338 | #98 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #502 of 2,388 | #32 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.0% | #2,122 of 2,534 | #131 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #1,336 of 1,757 | #89 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
538
+16 (+3%) vs 2020
-7% since 2000-01, when it was 579
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 538 | 46 | 11.7:1 | 24% (129) |
| 2023-24 | 489 | 43.1 | 11.4:1 | 20% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 503 | 43.9 | 11.5:1 | 18% (93) |
| 2020-21 | 522 | 43 | 12.1:1 | 19% (99) |
| 2017-18 | 579 | 41 | 14.1:1 | 12% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 610 | 46 | 13.3:1 | 17% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 608 | 48 | 12.7:1 | 9% (56) |
| 2000-01 | 579 | 37 | 15.7:1 | 5% (27) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in MELVILLE, New York, and is classified as an elementary school. It is open to students in kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 538 students. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (9 schools, 7,203 students) runs SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
More than half of the students at SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White (55%). Next come 16% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 7% multiracial. That compares with about 66% White among all Suffolk County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 64%.
With 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.7:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Roughly 24% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Suffolk County is 39%.
SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 70% of New York public elementary schools.
Test results at SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (65.6% actual, 66.2% predicted).
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 share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Suffolk County counts 343 public schools with about 222,439 students.
The closest school to SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is WEST HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL, located about 1.5 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment rose by 3% across 4 years, from 522 in 2020-21 to 538 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 HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,407 students
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WESTHigh · 1,028 students
- WEST HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 968 students
- VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 708 students
- CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 706 students
- SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
Other schools in MELVILLE
- WEST HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 968 students
- BIRCHWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 659 students
Nearby schools
- WEST HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 968
- BIRCHWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 659
- SAGAMORE CHILDREN'S PSYCHIATRIC CENTER1.9 mi · 36
- PLAINVIEW-OLD BETHPAGE/JFK HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 1,720
- OLD BETHPAGE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 407
- H B MATTLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 783
Frequently asked questions
About SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 538 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1.
What is the student diversity at SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 55% White, 15% Hispanic, 7% Black, 16% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SUNQUAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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