# VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360000800197`
- **School name**: VERNE W CRITZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: EAST PATCHOGUE, NY 11772
- **Address**: 185 DUNTON AVE
- **District**: SOUTH COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3600008`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–3
- **Coordinates**: 40.76300, -72.96270
- **Phone**: (631)730-1675

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 269
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 41.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: s
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 60.1% (176 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 32.5% (94 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 51.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 11.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.3% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 27.0% — 78 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,371
- **Federal share**: $2,499
- **State + local share**: $33,871
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 289
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $37,786,765
- **Federal share**: 13.4%
- **State share**: 41.9%
- **Local share**: 44.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $19,294,363

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $136,328
- **Poverty rate**: 0.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 52.0%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,823
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.4 miles (GOLDISC RECORDINGS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.60 miles (FORMER BELLPORT GAS STATION)

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 31% (this school: 28%)
- **MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 32% (this school: 28%)
- **SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 30% (this school: 28%)
- **SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 29% (this school: 28%)
- **BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 39% (this school: 28%)

### math proficiency
- **BELLPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 48% (this school: 32%)
- **BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 39% (this school: 32%)
- **MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 34% (this school: 32%)
- **SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 32%)
- **SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 55% (this school: 32%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/verne-w-critz-elementary-school-east-patchogue/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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