BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL

BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL is one of the close-knit primary schools in HICKSVILLE, New York, overseen by HICKSVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 263 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 41% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 9 schools in HICKSVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,285 students total), BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 32% Asian, 10% White, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

With demographic context factored in, BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.7%; this one delivers 64.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Nassau County shows the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OLD COUNTRY ROAD SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 61.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. BURNS AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 308 (now 263). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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