EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 154 E LAKE AVE, in MASSAPEQUA PARK, New York, EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school that educates 523 students (grades K through 5), operated by MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 9 schools in MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (6,461 students total), EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.4%, the actual is 56.6%, a residual of -15.8 points.

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

The closest other public school is MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 523). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 7% to 15%.

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