DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL

DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized elementary school in WESTBURY, New York, operated by WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 513 students spanning grades 1 through 5.

Within WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 4,480 students, DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 8% Black, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 68% of students at DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 44.1%.

Around the school, census data for Nassau County shows median household earnings sit near $146,202, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.9%.

DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 572 (now 513). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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