Peconic’s public schools score below 67% of New York districts
The public schools Peconic’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 67% of New York’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
What Peconic’s schools are like
High spending, middling results
Peconic spends $47,100 per student, 36% more than the state average. Results haven’t kept pace: the schools beat 33% of districts. Test scores ↓
The gap is biggest in math
Reading proficiency is 59%, 3 points below the state. Math is 46%, 10 points below the state. Test scores ↓
Peconic shares its schools with neighboring towns
Every school on Peconic’s path is shared: Southold Elementary School and Southold Junior-Senior High School. See the path ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.
How Peconic compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on New York’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of New York only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Peconic.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Below the state in reading
Every school in Peconic
0 schools. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Peconic families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Peconic
There’s no college in Peconic, but 4 are within 30 miles. The closest is Mitchell College in New London, 27.7 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Peconic. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within New York. Stars are from neighbors.