TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of average-sized scale in NESCONSET, New York, part of SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 470 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 12 schools in SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (7,437 students total), TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 13% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 19% of students at TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.9%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, 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), TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 56.1%.

TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 24%, going from 620 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025.

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