PARK AVENUE SCHOOL

PARK AVENUE SCHOOL, a moderately sized K-5 school in AMITYVILLE, New York, one of the schools within AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 604 students, covering grades 2 through 5. That puts it 36% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

PARK AVENUE SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 2,802 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PARK AVENUE SCHOOL shows that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 30% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, PARK AVENUE SCHOOL logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 74% of students at PARK AVENUE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PARK AVENUE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.7%; this one delivers 33.8%.

In the broader community, Suffolk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. PARK AVENUE SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PARK AVENUE SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARK AVENUE SCHOOL has fell 12%, going from 687 students in 2018 to 604 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 39% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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