Enrollment
269
Elementary
DISTRICT 403 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360000800197
VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
185 DUNTON AVE, EAST PATCHOGUE, NY 11772 · (631) 730-1675 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL269 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
9.1:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
112 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 52 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 25% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 26% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 29% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→BELLPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL→BELLPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SOUTH COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
51.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +23.0pp since 2023
Math
45.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 60% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (39.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 269 | 41.6% | 39.0% |
| JEFFERSON SCHOOL HUNTINGTON | 297 | 42.4% | 41.5% |
| SOUTHDOWN SCHOOL HUNTINGTON | 270 | 45.2% | 63.0% |
| FLOWER HILL SCHOOL HUNTINGTON | 278 | 48.9% | 67.0% |
| KREAMER STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLPORT | 284 | 44.7% | 28.3% |
| TUCKAHOE SCHOOL SOUTHAMPTON | 249 | 47.0% | 61.5% |
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 VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,670 of 2,335 | #117 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,628 of 2,342 ▲ 305 | #118 of 169 ▲ 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,279 of 2,343 ▲ 537 | #81 of 169 ▲ 50 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 269 | #2,150 of 2,585 | #186 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.1:1 | #193 of 2,338 | #22 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.1% | #749 of 2,388 | #67 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.6% | #1,647 of 2,534 | #75 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.9% | #433 of 1,757 | #9 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
269
-24 (-8%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 396
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 269 | 29.5 | 9.1:1 | 42% (112) |
| 2023-24 | 289 | 29.2 | 9.9:1 | 45% (131) |
| 2022-23 | 285 | 29.2 | 9.8:1 | 41% (116) |
| 2020-21 | 293 | 27 | 10.8:1 | 58% (171) |
| 2017-18 | 358 | 29 | 12.3:1 | 59% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 407 | 29 | 14.0:1 | 59% (239) |
| 2010-11 | 411 | 34 | 12.1:1 | 40% (164) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | 34 | 12.7:1 | 33% (144) |
| 1990-91 | 396 | 33 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the name of a small elementary school in EAST PATCHOGUE, New York. The grade span is kindergarten through 3, and enrollment is 269 students. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 39% smaller than that.
VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls under SOUTH COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 6 schools enrolling 3,798 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 54% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 32% White, 11% Black, and 2% multiracial. Among all residents of Suffolk County, the Hispanic share is about 23%. Pick two students at random and there is a 59% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 29.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 9.1:1. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 42%. For comparison, public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 59.7%. It actually posts 39.0%, which is 20.7 points lower and in the bottom 10% of New York schools.
Census Bureau estimates for Suffolk County show that the median household income is $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. There are 343 public schools in Suffolk County, enrolling about 222,439 students in all.
The nearest public school is KREAMER STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at about 1.0 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 36.0%, lower than VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 39.0%.
Federal data place VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 8% from its 2020-21 level of 293. The ratio was 10.8:1 in 2020-21 and 9.1:1 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 SOUTH COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BELLPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,340 students
- BELLPORT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 848 students
- FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- BROOKHAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
- KREAMER STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 284 students
Nearby schools
- KREAMER STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 284
- BELLPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 848
- FRANK P LONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 542
- EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES2.2 mi · 2,043
- BELLPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 1,340
- BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 269 students in grades KG-03.
What grades does VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 9.1:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 32% White, 54% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SOUTH COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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