NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Deer Park, NY

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5 public K-12 schools in Deer Park from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
4,054
Students
37.8/100
Avg Resource Index
10.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Deer Park has more public-school enrollment than 45% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Deer Park's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Deer Park's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Deer Park's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 36th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 95th percentile. The 59-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 55%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
36th percentile
Teacher staffing
95th percentile

Deer Park High School accounts for 32.7% of all Deer Park public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Deer Park-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Deer Park school enrollment varies 2.9× across entities

Deer Park school enrollment ranges from 465 students (lowest) to 1,326 students (highest), a spread of 861 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Deer Park operates one school district — a single-district system

Deer Park's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Deer Park student-teacher ratio is 10.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Robert Frost Middle School 55
2. John F Kennedy Intermediate School 44
3. Deer Park High School 42
4. May Moore Primary School 26
5. John Quincy Adams Primary School 22

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Deer Park

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 May Moore Primary School 75.9/100
  2. 2 Deer Park High School 75.8/100
  3. 3 John F Kennedy Intermediate School 75.6/100
  4. 4 Robert Frost Middle School 75.4/100
  5. 5 John Quincy Adams Primary School 74.2/100

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Which Deer Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Robert Frost Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Deer Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Deer Park, NY? ▼

Deer Park has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,054 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.9:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.