PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in BALDWIN, New York, part of BALDWIN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 429 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 7 schools operated by BALDWIN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 4,309 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 40% Black, 11% White, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

After controlling for student poverty, PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.7%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of +6.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Nassau County put 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%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 67.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 423 (now 429).

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