NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Patchogue, NY

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

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8
Schools
5,503
Students
48/100
Avg Resource Index
11.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Patchogue has more public-school enrollment than 60% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Eastern Suffolk Boces enrolls 37.1% of Patchogue's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Patchogue's 8 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.

Economic-need coverage is incomplete

Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 62.9% of Patchogue's listed enrollment. Because the remaining enrollment is outside that calculation, the measured percentage should not be generalized to every local student. The Resource Investment Index uses other reported federal fields and has its own coverage limits. Treat the city figures as a map of available records: inspect a campus's source fields before using economic need or resource position in a comparison.

City enrollment
Top 40%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
81st percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

Eastern Suffolk Boces accounts for 37.1% of all Patchogue public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Patchogue-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Patchogue school enrollment varies 6.5× across entities

Patchogue school enrollment ranges from 314 students (lowest) to 2,043 students (highest), a spread of 1,729 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

Patchogue student-teacher ratio is 11.2:1 — 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. Eastern Suffolk Boces 78
2. South Ocean Middle School 48
3. River Elementary School 48
4. Barton Elementary School 44
5. Saxton Middle School 43
6. Canaan Elementary School 42
7. Medford Elementary School 42
8. Bay Elementary School 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Patchogue

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 Eastern Suffolk Boces 68.5/100
  2. 2 River Elementary School 65.7/100
  3. 3 Barton Elementary School 64.3/100
  4. 4 South Ocean Middle School 58.9/100
  5. 5 Canaan Elementary School 57.7/100

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Which Patchogue school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Eastern Suffolk Boces has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Patchogue schools in this federal-data comparison at 78/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Patchogue, NY? ▼

Patchogue has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,503 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.2:1.

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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.