WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in WESTHAMPTON BEACH, New York, part of WESTHAMPTON BEACH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 298 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by WESTHAMPTON BEACH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 1,625 students overall.

Looking at the student body, WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 43% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 27% of students at WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.0%, the actual is 57.8%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WESTHAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 298). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 40% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 8.6:1 in 2018 to 6.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.