CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a tight-knit elementary campus in EAST ROCKAWAY, New York, CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 239 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by EAST ROCKAWAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 46% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 3 schools in EAST ROCKAWAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,126 students total), CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 35% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.3%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Nassau County put median household earnings sit near $146,202, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: EAST ROCKAWAY JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 314 (now 239). White enrollment moved from 65% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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