Mock presidential elections in Long Island schools

Adults may be voting Tuesday, but their children have been casting ballots for nearly a week.

Across Long Island, schools have been using this year’s election as an education tool. Mock debates and elections were the method of choice for many teachers, allowing students to have a say in our country’s next president, if only just for fun. The results show Donald Trump winning in 19 schools and Hillary Clinton taking 18. Here are the results, with schools going for Trump marked with a red "T" balloon and schools for Clinton marked with a blue "C" balloon:

“We’ve done this since 2000 and we’ve done a lot of election cycles,” said David Gestwick, a 6th grade social studies teacher at Plainview-Old Bethpage Middle School.

Student choices have become an important national predictor in presidential election years, with Scholastic’s student vote successfully predicting the future POTUS in all but two years since 1940. Hillary Clinton is favored to win among students nationally, but what about on Long Island?

Nearly 40 schools in Nassau and Suffolk counties gave Newsday their mock election results, painting an unscientific picture of what students think. How did your local district lean?

If you’d like to add your school’s mock election results, click here.

To read more about how school officials tackled teaching the election this year, click here. click here.

And read why some school’s changed their mock elections this year, here.