SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL

SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in COPIAGUE, New York, one of the schools within COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 611 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL sits 38% above that benchmark.

COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,579 students; SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL logs that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 9% Black, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -12.0 points.

In the area at large, Suffolk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 33% since 2018, when it stood at 917 (now 611). Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.