PARK AVENUE SCHOOL

PARK AVENUE SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in WESTBURY, New York, one of the schools within WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 557 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PARK AVENUE SCHOOL sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.

Within WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 4,480 students, PARK AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, PARK AVENUE SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%; the rest is composed of 23% Black. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PARK AVENUE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

With demographic context factored in, PARK AVENUE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.0%; this one comes in at 26.7%, -23.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Nassau County) logs that median household income runs about $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 PARK AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

POWELLS LANE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARK AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.8%.

PARK AVENUE SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. PARK AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 34% since 2018, when it stood at 845 (now 557). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 30% to 23%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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