HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL

As a modestly sized primary school in NORTH MERRICK, New York, HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL instructs 286 students from grades K through 6, run under NORTH MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 35% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NORTH MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,238 students; HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 19% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 7% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. 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. That share is noticeably below Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.8%, the actual is 80.4%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Nassau County put median household earnings sit near $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OLD MILL ROAD SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 273 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 6% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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