OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 875 LONGVIEW AVE, in VALLEY STREAM, New York, OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate elementary campus that teaches 295 students (grades 2 through 5), part of HEWLETT-WOODMERE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 33% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

HEWLETT-WOODMERE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,745 students. OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 13% Black, 10% Asian, 2% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 31% of students at OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify 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), OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for Nassau County shows median household earnings sit near $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 61.8%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 358 students in 2018 compared to 295 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 62% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 in 2025.

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