DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL

Located at 1050 DENTON AVE, in NEW HYDE PARK, New York, DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school that caters to 599 students (grades K through 5), part of HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL sits 35% larger than that benchmark.

HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 4,259 students; DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Asian, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% White, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.3%, the actual is 85.3%, a residual of +18.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, 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 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 DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 76.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 599). Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 71% to 79%.

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