LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Set in LOCUST VALLEY, New York, LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is an intimate elementary-level community, one of the schools within LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 227 students across grades 3 through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits 49% smaller than that benchmark.

LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 1,794 students overall.

Demographically, LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Hispanic, 8% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.7%, the actual is 77.2%, a residual of +10.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Nassau County shows median household income runs about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 64.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

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