VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of well-populated scale in DIX HILLS, New York, run under HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 708 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 60% above the state mean of about 443.

Across the 9 schools in HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (7,203 students total), VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 22% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.8%, the actual is 78.0%, a residual of +12.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put median household income runs about $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

WESTERN SUFFOLK BOCES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 77.0%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 5%: 675 students in 2018 compared to 708 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 15% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.