Terryville Road School, Port Jefferson Sta NY

Original Research by School Decision on Terryville Road School

Terryville Road School is the upper elementary school in the Brookhaven-Comsewogue Union Free School District, serving grades three through five in Port Jefferson Station on Long Island's North Shore. It sits on Terryville Road in an unincorporated hamlet that reads as a quiet suburban community of residential streets, auto-oriented commercial corridors, and light industrial pockets, distinct from the more tourist-facing Port Jefferson village immediately to its north.

On the New York State assessments, proficiency rates are below the midpoint when placed alongside districts in Suffolk County. In third and fourth grade, roughly a third of students reached proficiency in both math and ELA. Fifth grade results were weaker still, with fewer than one in five students scoring proficient in math and a similarly low share in ELA. Fifth-grade science results, while somewhat higher than the reading and math figures for that grade, still show a minority of tested students reaching proficiency. The school sits in the bottom quartile on the overall proficiency index relative to districts across Suffolk County. These are the state's most recent reported results; trend data was not available in this dataset, so it is not possible to say whether scores are improving, holding steady, or declining. A parent who wants to understand the trajectory would do well to ask the school directly about progress over time.

Participation rates in fifth grade were notably lower than in third grade, which can affect how proficiency figures are interpreted. That gap is worth raising with the school as well.

The student body is a mix of white and Hispanic students, who together make up the large majority of enrollment, with smaller shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a working- and mixed-income community. Data on English learner enrollment and the share of students with IEPs were not reported in the available data.

The surrounding community is in active transition. The old Jefferson Plaza shopping center at the Terryville Road and Route 112 intersection, just down the road from the school, was rezoned and demolition began in early 2026. Publicly reported plans call for a large mixed-use apartment and commercial development to replace it, with a central civic plaza and a food hall as part of the project. That scale of construction will change the immediate neighborhood around the school over the coming years. The hamlet is also connected to the regional rail network via the LIRR's Port Jefferson Branch terminus, and a paved greenway trail used for walking and cycling runs through the area, though the hamlet's overall movement is car-dependent rather than walkable.

Housing in the zip code carries home values well above both the state and national benchmarks, and rents are high enough that rent-to-income ratios signal a meaningful affordability strain for renters. The Suffolk County market more broadly has seen prices edge upward year over year, with homes selling more quickly than they did in prior years. This is an expensive place to buy in, even by Long Island standards.

No information about specific programs, staffing levels, attendance patterns, or discipline data was available for this school. A graduation rate is not applicable here, as the school serves only elementary grades. District-level changes and strategic priorities were searched but could not be confirmed from public sources before the research window closed, so that picture is left out rather than guessed at.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 335%

School 35% · District 41% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 435%

School 35% · District 44% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 520%

School 20% · District 27% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 31 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 335%

School 35% · District 37% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 441%

School 41% · District 41%

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 24% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Science

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 31% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 593%

School 93% · district not reported

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

This schoolBROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income17%Higher-income51%34 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income22%Higher-income57%35 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income15%Higher-income26%11 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income21%Higher-income48%26 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income26%Higher-income44%18 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income15%Higher-income23%9 pp gap