NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of sizable scale in SHIRLEY, New York, part of WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 812 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 83% above that benchmark.

NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 9 schools operated by WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 9,386 students overall.

On demographics, NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 25% White, 11% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 57.9%; NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 36.9%, -21.0 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is JOHN S HOBART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 18% since 2018, when it stood at 690 (now 812). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 37% to 54%.

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