JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in PORT WASHINGTON, New York, operated by PORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 564 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 7 schools operated by PORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 5,298 students overall.

On demographics, JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 65% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 18% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 5% of students at JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.2%, the actual is 74.8%, a residual of +1.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Nassau County put the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

MANORHAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 77.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 5%, going from 591 students in 2018 to 564 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 75% to 65% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

On the community side, members of the JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.