HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL

HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in VALLEY STREAM, New York, overseen by VALLEY STREAM 13 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 599 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 35% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

VALLEY STREAM 13 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,054 students; HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Asian (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 25% Black, 23% Hispanic, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL reports 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of -9.7 points.

Around the school, 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%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

JAMES A DEVER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.7%.

HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 545 students in 2018 compared to 599 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share grew from 24% to 43%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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