CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL

As a high-enrollment primary school in ELMONT, New York, CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL serves 764 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of ELMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 72% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 6 schools in ELMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,387 students total), CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Black, 27% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 54.1%, a residual of +1.0 points.

Around the school, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 866 (now 764). Black enrollment moved from 39% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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