JOHN J DALY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 36 ROCKWOOD AVE, in PORT WASHINGTON, New York, JOHN J DALY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary-level community that instructs 471 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under PORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within PORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 5,298 students, JOHN J DALY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOHN J DALY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, JOHN J DALY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.9%; this one delivers 76.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate median household earnings sit near $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. JOHN J DALY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

The closest other public school is GUGGENHEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JOHN J DALY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN J DALY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 9%, going from 516 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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