PARKWAY SCHOOL

PARKWAY SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in EAST MEADOW, New York, part of EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 570 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PARKWAY SCHOOL sits 29% above that benchmark.

EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 7,793 students; PARKWAY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PARKWAY SCHOOL reports that 37% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 35% White, 20% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PARKWAY SCHOOL has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PARKWAY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.8%, the actual is 75.2%, a residual of +10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Nassau County put the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PARKWAY SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARKWAY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 66.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARKWAY SCHOOL has increased 19%, going from 481 students in 2018 to 570 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 57% to 35%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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