LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL

LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized middle schools in HEMPSTEAD, New York, operated by UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 623 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Within UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 8 schools and 5,995 students, LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest reads as 36% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.0%; this one delivers 39.8%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Nassau County put median household earnings sit near $146,202, 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), LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 24% since 2018, when it stood at 825 (now 623). Black enrollment moved from 40% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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