SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in SAYVILLE, New York, overseen by SAYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 388 students in grades pre-K through 5.

SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by SAYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 2,586 students overall.

Demographically, SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.2%; this one delivers 59.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put 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), SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 395 (now 388). The White share of enrollment declined from 89% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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