BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an average-sized elementary campus in SYOSSET, New York, run under SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 450 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 10 schools in SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (6,980 students total), BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 36% Asian, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.6%, the actual is 75.4%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Nassau County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 85.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 14%: 394 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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