FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an average-sized elementary campus in MASSAPEQUA, New York, part of MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 513 students spanning grades K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.6%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of -16.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Nassau County shows median household income runs about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MASSAPEQUA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 71.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 516 (now 513). White enrollment moved from 87% to 80% across the same window.

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