GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 711 SCHOOL DR, in NORTH BALDWIN, New York, GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized primary school that works with 306 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 31% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,995 students; GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 44% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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), GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Nassau County) records that 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%. GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 49.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 313 (now 306). The Black share of enrollment fell from 51% to 44% over that span.

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