NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL

Set in NORTHPORT, New York, NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is a mid-sized primary school, part of NORTHPORT-EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 416 students across grades K through 4.

Across the 7 schools in NORTHPORT-EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,293 students total), NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 80%; the rest reads as 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 69.9%; actual is 39.3%, a gap of -30.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 71.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL has increased 28%, going from 324 students in 2018 to 416 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 86% to 80% over that span.

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