ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY

ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY is a K-5 school of small scale in LOCUST VALLEY, New York, overseen by LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 211 students in grades pre-K through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,794 students. ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY reports that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 14% of students at ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Nassau County) reports that median household income runs about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY is one.

LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 55%: 464 students in 2018 compared to 211 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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