NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Smithtown, NY

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8 public K-12 schools in Smithtown 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
4,389
Students
51.4/100
Avg Resource Index
11:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Smithtown has more public-school enrollment than 49% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Smithtown lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Smithtown's 8 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 24-point gap between Accompsett Middle School and Pines Elementary School shows the range hidden by Smithtown's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 51%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
90th percentile
Teacher staffing
95th percentile

Smithtown High School-West accounts for 26.4% of all Smithtown public-school enrollment

That concentration means Smithtown-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

Smithtown school enrollment varies 3.4× across entities

Smithtown school enrollment ranges from 342 students (lowest) to 1,158 students (highest), a spread of 816 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

Smithtown student-teacher ratio is 11.0:1 — 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. Accompsett Middle School 62
2. Smithtown High School-West 60
3. Accompsett Elementary School 54
4. Mount Pleasant Elementary School 54
5. Dogwood Elementary School 52
6. Smithtown Elementary School 47
7. Forest Brook Elementary School 44
8. Pines Elementary School 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Smithtown

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 Forest Brook Elementary School 56.0/100
  2. 2 Pines Elementary School 49.6/100
  3. 3 Smithtown Elementary School 48.3/100
  4. 4 Mount Pleasant Elementary School 45.6/100
  5. 5 Smithtown High School-West 41.4/100

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Which Smithtown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Accompsett Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Smithtown schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Smithtown, NY? ▼

Smithtown has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,389 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11:1.

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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.