Suffolk's Special Education Populations

District Student Population Percentages

The following illustrates the percentages of Special Education student populations in each listed school districts, in 1996:

Amagansett            17.06          Mattituck               10.19 
Amityville            10.55          Middle Island           15.54 
Babylon               10.64          Miller Place            10.80 
Bayport-Blue Point    14.28          Montauk                  6.85 
Bayshore              13.22          Mount Sinai              8.89 
Brentwood             15.15          Northport-E. Northport  13.32 
Bridgehampton         18.41          North Babylon           13.71 
Center Moriches       16.50          Oysterponds              8.06 
Central Islip         17.52          Patchogue-Medford       16.28 
Cold Spring Harbor     9.10          Port Jefferson          13.33 
Commack               11.83          Quogue                  15.04 
Comsewogue            12.60          Remsenburg-Speonk        6.91 
Connetquot            15.91          Riverhead               14.22 
Copiague              12.05          Rocky Point             11.75 
Deer Park              9.32          Sachem                  16.07 
East Hampton          11.50          Sag Harbor              15.76 
East Islip             9.28          Sayville                16.10 
East Moriches         12.95          Shelter Island          13.95 
Eastport              13.58          Shoreham-Wading River   12.12 
East Quogue           11.81          Smithtown               11.40
Elwood                 9.38          Southampton             12.92 
Fire Island           22.67          South Country           15.99 
Fishers Island        18.00          South Huntington        12.26 
Greenport             17.62          South Manor             12.82 
Half Hollow Hills     14.82          Southold                 8.71 
Hampton bays          13.90          Springs                  8.19 
Harborfields          11.60          Three Village           10.57 
Hauppauge             10.84          Tuckahoe                12.46 
Huntington            12.91          West Babylon            15.23 
Islip                 12.20          Westhampton Beach       14.63 
Kings Park            11.90          West Islip              13.88 
Laurel                 4.15          William Floyd           14.62 
Lindenhurst           10.43          Wyandanch               17.34 
Longwood              15.53

Suffolk's countywide special education student population averaged 12.97%, with more than forty-eight percent of the districts exceeding the NYS Education Department's proposed acceptance standard, of little more than 12%. Though efforts are being made by the Regents to change this pitiful affront to the intelligence of the taxpaying public, progress is slow. Reversing the money-acquiring abuse of some Long Island's school district administrators will take a while. For more information about the the effects of these abuses, read Special Ed Impacts.