MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a medium-sized elementary campus in MASSAPEQUA PARK, New York, MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 485 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 9 schools in MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (6,461 students total), MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school shows 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 8% of students at MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

After controlling for student poverty, MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.1%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of -18.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.7%.

MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has increased 5%, going from 464 students in 2018 to 485 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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