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Enrollment
708
Elementary
DISTRICT 619 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361329001093
VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
350 DEER PARK AVE, DIX HILLS, NY 11746 · (631) 592-3800 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL708 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
13.9:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
176 students
DISTRICT 27% · 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 | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 134 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 144 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 33% smaller than its 5th grade class (144).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
80.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
85.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.0% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 84.0% |
% 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
78.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (78.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 708 | 24.9% | 78.0% |
| SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIX HILLS | 672 | 20.1% | 65.9% |
| BATTERY PARK CITY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 797 | 22.6% | 82.7% |
| JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL FLORAL PARK | 674 | 24.9% | 75.0% |
| PS 199 JESSIE ISADOR STRAUS NEW YORK | 570 | 23.9% | 78.6% |
| PAUMANOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIX HILLS | 602 | 30.1% | 75.1% |
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 VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #197 of 2,335 | #2 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #234 of 2,342 ▼ 21 | #4 of 169 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #258 of 2,343 ▲ 181 | #5 of 169 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 708 | #260 of 2,585 | #17 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,863 of 2,338 | #165 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.1% | #217 of 2,388 | #10 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.9% | #2,104 of 2,534 | #130 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.9% | #397 of 606 | #34 of 57 |
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
708
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 607
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 708 | 50.8 | 13.9:1 | 25% (176) |
| 2023-24 | 705 | 49.8 | 14.2:1 | 21% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 703 | 47.4 | 14.8:1 | 18% (127) |
| 2020-21 | 713 | 54 | 13.2:1 | 19% (139) |
| 2017-18 | 675 | 42 | 16.1:1 | 14% (92) |
| 2015-16 | 680 | 43 | 15.8:1 | 17% (118) |
| 2010-11 | 561 | 39 | 14.4:1 | 12% (66) |
| 2000-01 | 661 | 44 | 15.0:1 | 9% (61) |
| 1990-91 | 607 | 43 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in DIX HILLS, New York, and it is part of HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 708 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 60% larger than that mark.
In HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, 9 schools enroll a combined 7,203 students.
No group is above 50% at VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is White, at 46%. Beyond that, enrollment is 22% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 6% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 66%. The diversity index for VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 70%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 50.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.9 students per teacher. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. The school reported 25% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is below the 39% average among public schools in Suffolk County.
VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 90% of New York public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 12.1 points above its prediction. Actual: 78.0%. Predicted: 65.8%.
In Suffolk County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Suffolk County number 343, with about 222,439 students.
Of the public schools around it, VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to WESTERN SUFFOLK BOCES, about 1.0 miles away. VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd of 6 nearby schools, at 78.0% versus a 77.0% average.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's size has been steady, with 713 students in 2020-21 and 708 in 2024-25.
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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 HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,407 students
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WESTHigh · 1,028 students
- WEST HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 968 students
- CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 706 students
- SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- PAUMANOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
Other schools in DIX HILLS
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,407 students
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WESTHigh · 1,028 students
- WESTERN SUFFOLK BOCESCombined · 866 students
- CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 706 students
- SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- PAUMANOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
Nearby schools
- WESTERN SUFFOLK BOCES1.0 mi · 866
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL EAST1.3 mi · 1,407
- SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 672
- ROLLING HILLS SCHOOL1.7 mi · 246
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WEST1.7 mi · 1,028
- CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 706
Frequently asked questions
About VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 708 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 46% White, 16% Hispanic, 11% Black, 22% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.