Other / mixed grade configuration · Sagaponack, NY

Sagaponack School

Federal NCES profile for Sagaponack School, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 66/100.

2024-25 NCES dataOther / mixed grade configurationNCES 362541003516
0/100100/10066/100
👥 S:T ratio
66
🌟 Gifted program
30
🎓 Counselors
83
📋 Attendance
85
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →

The verdict

Sagaponack School earns 66/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 87% of New York schools. It is also one of the smallest schools in New York.

66
Resource Index · Higher
8.5:1
small classes for New York
17
students enrolled

Sagaponack School has class sizes smaller than 87% of New York schools. Computed live against every New York school reporting to NCES.

Enrollment

17

New York · 2024-25 NCES data

Teachers (FTE)

2.0

Federal CCD staff survey

Students per teacher

8.5:1

vs 11.8:1 New York avg

-28% vs state

Student-teacher ratio in context

How Sagaponack School compares with New York and U.S. medians

Smaller classes than state median
0:135:18.5:1

Source: NCES Common Core of Data As of 2024-25 federal staff survey Total enrollment ÷ full-time-equivalent classroom teachers

What stands out at Sagaponack School

Sagaponack School is a small combined-grade school in Sagaponack, New York, enrolling 17 students.

Classes run notably small here: at 8.5:1, Sagaponack School is leaner than roughly 87% of New York schools and 28% under the state's 11.8:1 norm, more adult attention per pupil than most peers.

This is a small campus: fewer students than 99% of New York schools, with 17 enrolled.

Its Resource Investment Index outscores 97% of the 4,801 New York schools with a score on record, a top-tier result on this measure.

Its student body is predominantly White (88% of enrollment) (diversity index 22/100).

Counselor coverage is strong, about 85 students per counselor, inside the American School Counselor Association's recommended 250:1.

Attendance holds up well here: only 5.9% of students were chronically absent, below the typical post-pandemic national figure.

The surrounding Sagaponack Common School District spends $89,769 per pupil, 240% above the New York average, a better-resourced district than most.

Sagaponack Common School District operates only this one school, so Sagaponack School has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 17 students, it is also a small operation, on the smaller end of New York's single-school districts.

Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25

How Sagaponack School compares

Sagaponack School on the metrics families compare, against New York and U.S. means.

Metric This school vs New York New York avg U.S. avg
Students per teacher 8.5:1 ▼ 28% 11.8:1 15.7:1
Enrollment 17 top 100% - -

Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25

8.5:1
Leaner classes than 94% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
17
Bigger than 2% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.

Equity indicators (what these measure)

Staffing depth
8.5:1
students per teacher - 28% below state mean
Top 13% in New York - lower ratio than 87% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Engagement
5.9%
chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days)
In the 5-10% range, close to the pre-pandemic national baseline.
Funding equity
$89,769
per pupil, district-wide - above New York avg of $26,410
Well above the U.S. public-school average, reflecting substantially higher local or state investment per enrolled student.
Support staff
Counselors0.2 FTE
Student-support staffing from the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Discipline context
0
in-school suspensions + 0 out-of-school
Suspension rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Combined in-school and out-of-school rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Reported via the Civil Rights Data Collection.

Overview

  • Common Core of Data (June 2026): enrollment, staffing, and the student-teacher ratio above.
  • Civil Rights Data Collection: discipline counts and program access (AP, gifted, special education).
  • F-33 School District Finance Survey: the district-wide per-pupil spending figures below.

Three separate federal collections, each on its own reporting cadence - which is why this school's numbers line up on a consistent basis against every other school and state on this site, rather than mixing figures pulled from different survey years.

Student demographics

White 88.2%
African American 5.9%
Two or More 5.9%

Largest group: White at 88.2% of enrollment.

Student-body diversity index 21.5/100

Simpson diversity index - at 21.5, Sagaponack School is less mixed than the New York school average of 45.5.

Programs

Funding & spending

District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Sagaponack Common School District, which includes Sagaponack School.

$89,769
Per student
+240%
vs New York
Avg $26,410
+441%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 98.1%
State 0.5%
Federal 1.4%

Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2021-22 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.

Similar other schools statewide

Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of New York, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.

Next steps

Verify locally before acting on Sagaponack School's federal record.

Federal record (CCD 2024-25, CRDC 2021-22) - PlainSchools assigns no subjective rating; the composite quality score is a transparent, reproducible index computed from this cited federal data.

Frequently asked questions about Sagaponack School

How many students attend Sagaponack School?

Sagaponack School has 17 students enrolled. It is a public school in Sagaponack, NY.

What is the student-teacher ratio at Sagaponack School?

The student-teacher ratio at Sagaponack School is 8.5:1, which is 28% lower than the New York average of 11.8:1 and 46% lower than the national average of 15.7:1. Lower ratios generally mean more individual attention per student.

What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Sagaponack School?

The largest demographic group at Sagaponack School is White at 88.2% of enrollment, in Sagaponack, NY.

What is the Resource Investment Index for Sagaponack School?

Sagaponack School has a Resource Investment Index of 66/100 (higher reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 4 factors: student-teacher ratio, counselor availability, attendance rates. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology).

Is Sagaponack School a good school?

Sagaponack School earns 66/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 87% of New York schools. It is also one of the smallest schools in New York. This is a resource snapshot, not an academic rating; see the Resource Investment Index question above for what the number does and doesn't measure.

What other schools are in Sagaponack Common School District?

None reported; Sagaponack Common School District operates only Sagaponack School as a public school district in NCES's records.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) CCD + Public School Universe (2024-25), CRDC (2021-22), F-33 District Finance Survey (FY 2021-22) · 2024-25 Data as of the 2024-25 school year. Coverage from U.S. Department of Education NCES Common Core of Data. Varies by entity type; administrative districts and certain charter networks may report only a subset of fields.

All federal data sources used on this page

Full source list and how we compute each figure: methodology page.

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