ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized primary school in NORTH MASSAPEQUA, New York, overseen by FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 536 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 21% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 6 schools in FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,180 students total), ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that White students make up the majority at 65%; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.8%.

In the surrounding community, Nassau County reports that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

FARMINGDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 536 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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