DANIEL STREET SCHOOL

DANIEL STREET SCHOOL is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in LINDENHURST, New York, operated by LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 495 students in grades K through 5.

DANIEL STREET SCHOOL is one of 8 schools operated by LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that serves 5,560 students overall.

In terms of who attends, DANIEL STREET SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 32% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, DANIEL STREET SCHOOL logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DANIEL STREET SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.5%; this one delivers 43.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which DANIEL STREET SCHOOL is one.

LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DANIEL STREET SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DANIEL STREET SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.2%.

DANIEL STREET SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. DANIEL STREET SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 533 (now 495). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 71% to 55%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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