HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOL

HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in NEW HYDE PARK, New York, overseen by NEW HYDE PARK-GARDEN CITY PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 446 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by NEW HYDE PARK-GARDEN CITY PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 1,551 students overall.

On the student-mix side, HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Asian, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 11% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 5% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.3%, the actual is 78.7%, a residual of +5.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate median household income runs about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is NEW HYDE PARK ROAD SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 73.6%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 561 students in 2018 compared to 446 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 19% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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