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Enrollment
433
Elementary
DISTRICT 497 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362247003169
TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
143 TREMONT AVE, MEDFORD, NY 11763 · (631) 687-8700 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
10.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
140 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
54.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 53.0% |
% 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
46.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (46.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 433 | 32.3% | 46.8% |
| FRANCIS X HEGARTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ISLAND PARK | 451 | 33.9% | 48.2% |
| FRANK G LINDSEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONTROSE | 472 | 35.4% | 58.5% |
| MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PATTERSON | 464 | 37.3% | 46.7% |
| CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 381 | 36.5% | N/A |
| PAWLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PAWLING | 401 | 28.4% | 47.0% |
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 TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #1,303 of 2,335 | #84 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,200 of 2,342 ▼ 9 | #83 of 169 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,194 of 2,343 ▲ 206 | #72 of 169 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 433 | #1,180 of 2,585 | #106 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #771 of 2,338 | #68 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.2% | #742 of 2,388 | #66 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.3% | #1,916 of 2,534 | #103 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.3% | #1,394 of 1,757 | #94 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
433
-74 (-15%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 614
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 433 | 39.9 | 10.9:1 | 32% (140) |
| 2023-24 | 471 | 40.7 | 11.6:1 | 41% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 466 | 38 | 12.3:1 | 35% (163) |
| 2020-21 | 507 | 37 | 13.7:1 | 43% (220) |
| 2017-18 | 462 | 30 | 15.4:1 | 34% (158) |
| 2015-16 | 463 | 27 | 17.1:1 | 41% (190) |
| 2010-11 | 548 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 25% (139) |
| 2000-01 | 651 | 40 | 16.3:1 | 14% (94) |
| 1990-91 | 614 | 36 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in MEDFORD, New York, and it is part of PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 433 students.
The district for TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 11 schools and 7,605 students.
More than half of the students at TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White (51%). Other reported shares: 38% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 66% White among all Suffolk County residents. The diversity index for TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 59%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 39.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.9:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 32% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 33% of New York public elementary schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 63.1%. TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 46.8%.
The school's county is Suffolk County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Suffolk County's 343 public schools enroll about 222,439 students and include TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Measured in a straight line, OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.3 miles from TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 45.1% proficiency; TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 46.8%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 15% decline, from 507 to 433. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.9:1.
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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 PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,487 students
- EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 596 students
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 579 students
- OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 545 students
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
Other schools in MEDFORD
- PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,487 students
- EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 545 students
Other Tremont Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Tremont Elementary. TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Tremont Elementary SchoolUpper Arlington, OH · 694 students
- Tremont ElementaryDixon, CA · 514 students
- Tremont Elementary SchoolTremont, IL · 304 students
Nearby schools
- OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 545
- PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 2,487
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 515
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 579
- EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES1.6 mi · 2,043
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 596
Frequently asked questions
About TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 433 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 51% White, 38% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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