MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in MANHASSET, New York, MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a roomy primary school, one of the schools within MANHASSET UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 803 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 81% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

MANHASSET UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 3,006 students; MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 32% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.3%.

Around the school, 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%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SHELTER ROCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 85.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MUNSEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 9%, going from 882 students in 2018 to 803 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 69% to 53%.

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