DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL

DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary school in HEMPSTEAD, New York, part of HEMPSTEAD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 388 students in grades K through 6.

Within HEMPSTEAD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 8 schools and 5,321 students, DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 32% Black. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.1%; this one comes in at 20.9%, -22.3 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Nassau County) reports that 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%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 40.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 32% since 2018, when it stood at 569 (now 388). Hispanic enrollment moved from 59% to 67% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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