BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOL

BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in FREEPORT, New York, part of FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 515 students in grades K through 4.

Within FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 8 schools and 6,125 students, BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

With demographic context factored in, BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.7%, the actual is 68.6%, a residual of +16.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate median household earnings sit near $146,202, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ARCHER STREET SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 593 (now 515). Over the same period, the White share fell from 12% to 1%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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