NORTH SIDE SCHOOL

NORTH SIDE SCHOOL is an elementary school of average-sized scale in EAST WILLISTON, New York, part of EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 510 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Within EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,571 students, NORTH SIDE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTH SIDE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting NORTH SIDE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. 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), NORTH SIDE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.5%, the actual is 84.8%, a residual of +12.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate 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 NORTH SIDE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WHEATLEY SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NORTH SIDE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.7%.

NORTH SIDE SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. NORTH SIDE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 574 (now 510). The Asian share of enrollment ticked up from 30% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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