ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL

ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL is a junior high of reasonably sized scale in HEMPSTEAD, New York, operated by HEMPSTEAD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 748 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 41% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

HEMPSTEAD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,321 students; ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 25% Black. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.8%; actual is 26.1%, a gap of -20.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Nassau County shows median household income runs about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

The closest other public school is PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 48%: 1,437 students in 2018 compared to 748 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 4% to 0% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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