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Enrollment
611
Elementary
DISTRICT 483 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360831000614
SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL
SCUDDER AVE, COPIAGUE, NY 11726 · (631) 842-4014 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL611 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest 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
15.5:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
414 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 146 | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (108).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
Based on grade levels within COPIAGUE 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 43.0% |
% 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
38.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL
SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL's state test result (38.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL this school | 611 | 67.8% | 38.0% |
| DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL WESTBURY | 513 | 67.6% | 44.1% |
| PINE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 544 | 64.5% | N/A |
| MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOL CENTRAL ISLIP | 567 | 62.1% | 33.7% |
| CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CENTRAL ISLIP | 490 | 63.9% | 28.8% |
| ANTHONY ALFANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CENTRAL ISLIP | 491 | 73.3% | 30.4% |
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 SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,713 of 2,335 | #124 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,489 of 2,342 ▲ 73 | #102 of 169 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,791 of 2,343 ▲ 214 | #125 of 169 ▲ 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 611 | #424 of 2,585 | #36 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #2,099 of 2,338 | #184 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.1% | #1,856 of 2,388 | #173 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.8% | #1,018 of 2,534 | #19 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.4% | #218 of 1,757 | #3 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
611
-66 (-10%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 629
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 611 | 39.4 | 15.5:1 | 68% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 624 | 40 | 15.6:1 | 65% (406) |
| 2022-23 | 680 | 39.9 | 17.1:1 | 58% (392) |
| 2020-21 | 677 | 37 | 18.3:1 | 53% (360) |
| 2017-18 | 917 | 43 | 21.3:1 | 65% (592) |
| 2015-16 | 800 | 35 | 22.9:1 | 73% (581) |
| 2010-11 | 746 | 45 | 16.6:1 | 66% (491) |
| 2000-01 | 760 | 46 | 16.5:1 | 59% (448) |
| 1990-91 | 629 | 37 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL.
About SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL
SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in COPIAGUE, New York. Enrollment totals 611 students across kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 38% bigger than that mark.
Enrollment across the 6 schools in COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 4,579 students.
Hispanic students are 82% of those enrolled at SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 9% Black and 7% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Suffolk County's population at about 23%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 31%.
For every teacher at SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL, there are about 15.5 students; the school has 39.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has more students per teacher. There are 414 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 68% of enrollment. It compares with 39% for public schools in Suffolk County.
On the allk12 Grade, SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL lands at C, ahead of 26% of New York public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL is -12.0 points: 38.0% actual, 50.1% predicted.
For the population of Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Suffolk County, 343 public schools serve about 222,439 students.
Of the public schools around it, SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL is closest to GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL is 9th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 611, compared with 677 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 18.3:1 to 15.5:1.
People who know SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,567 students
- COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,081 students
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
- GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 427 students
Other schools in COPIAGUE
- WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,567 students
- COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,081 students
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
- GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 427 students
Nearby schools
- GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 428
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 465
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 427
- WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,567
- ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 498
- COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,081
Frequently asked questions
About SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOLHow large is SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL?
SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 611 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL serve?
SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL is approximately 15.5:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL?
At SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 7% White, 82% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL in?
SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL is part of COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.