ABBEY LANE SCHOOL

Set in LEVITTOWN, New York, ABBEY LANE SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary campus, run under LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 607 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% above the state mean of about 443.

LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 7,062 students. ABBEY LANE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ABBEY LANE SCHOOL records that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 29% Asian, 25% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ABBEY LANE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, ABBEY LANE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.3%; this one delivers 62.0%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Nassau County put median household income runs about $146,202, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. ABBEY LANE SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

The closest other public school is WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ABBEY LANE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ABBEY LANE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 68.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. ABBEY LANE SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 650 (now 607). Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 12% to 29%.

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