TWIN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TWIN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of expansive scale in BRENTWOOD, New York, run under BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 804 students in grades 1 through 5. That puts it 81% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 17,844 students; TWIN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, TWIN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder consists of 6% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at TWIN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, TWIN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.0%; this one delivers 37.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which TWIN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

PINE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TWIN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TWIN PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 10%, going from 893 students in 2018 to 804 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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