EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in ROSLYN HEIGHTS, New York, part of ROSLYN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 552 students in grades 2 through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 25% larger than that benchmark.

ROSLYN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,329 students; EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 30% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 21% of students at EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 67.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate 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%. EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

ROSLYN HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 82.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 8% since 2018, when it stood at 512 (now 552). White enrollment moved from 60% to 49% across the same window.

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