HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL

HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL operates as a small elementary campus in LINDENHURST, New York, one of the schools within LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 278 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL sits 37% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,560 students total), HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 61.5%; this one comes in at 39.9%, -21.6 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Suffolk County reports that median household earnings sit near $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 310 (now 278). White enrollment moved from 78% to 69% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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