TUCKAHOE SCHOOL

TUCKAHOE SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of tight-knit scale in SOUTHAMPTON, New York, part of TUCKAHOE COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 249 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 44% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

TUCKAHOE SCHOOL sits inside TUCKAHOE COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICT, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, TUCKAHOE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 23% White, 19% Native American, 2% Black. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TUCKAHOE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.5%.

Zooming out to the 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 roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), TUCKAHOE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTHAMPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around TUCKAHOE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TUCKAHOE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 57.3%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TUCKAHOE SCHOOL has ticked down 21%, going from 315 students in 2018 to 249 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 65% to 53%.

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