DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

As a close-knit K-5 school in LYNBROOK, New York, DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL educates 370 students from grades 3 through 5, run under MALVERNE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by MALVERNE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 1,808 students overall.

Looking at the student body, DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Black (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 28% Hispanic, 19% White, 11% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 1% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 74.7%; DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL posts 55.0%, -19.7 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Nassau County reports that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

Nearest neighbor: HOWARD T HERBER MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 75.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 391 (now 370). Black enrollment moved from 49% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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