CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in ROOSEVELT, New York, CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 460 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of ROOSEVELT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within ROOSEVELT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 3,152 students, CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 33% Black, 3% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

With demographic context factored in, CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.9%; this one delivers 43.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Nassau County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WASHINGTON ROSE SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 24%, going from 606 students in 2018 to 460 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 49% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.