GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL

GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary campus in ELMONT, New York, part of ELMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school works with 515 students in grades pre-K through 6.

ELMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,387 students. GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.6%, the actual is 63.5%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Nassau County shows the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 56.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 589 (now 515). Black enrollment moved from 55% to 48% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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