MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL

MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of intimate scale in NEW HYDE PARK, New York, part of NEW HYDE PARK-GARDEN CITY PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 320 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within NEW HYDE PARK-GARDEN CITY PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,551 students, MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL records that 61% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 21% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

In terms of school funding signals, MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.7%, the actual is 80.0%, a residual of +8.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Nassau County shows median household earnings sit near $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 76.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 331 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 41% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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