ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL

ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in LINDENHURST, New York, run under LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 498 students in grades K through 5.

ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL is one of 8 schools operated by LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 5,560 students overall.

On the student-mix side, ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 40% White, 5% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL shows 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.2%.

Around the school, census data for Suffolk County shows median household earnings sit near $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WEST GATES AVENUE SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 47.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 19% since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 498). White enrollment moved from 64% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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