MAURICE W DOWNING PRIMARY SCHOOL

MAURICE W DOWNING PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in MALVERNE, New York, operated by MALVERNE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 382 students on its rolls from grades K through 2.

MALVERNE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,808 students. MAURICE W DOWNING PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MAURICE W DOWNING PRIMARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 25% Black, 21% White, 12% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MAURICE W DOWNING PRIMARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 1% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Nassau County) shows that median household earnings sit near $146,202, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which MAURICE W DOWNING PRIMARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WILLOW ROAD SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MAURICE W DOWNING PRIMARY SCHOOL.

MAURICE W DOWNING PRIMARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. MAURICE W DOWNING PRIMARY SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 353 (now 382). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 39% to 25%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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