RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 100 RHAME AVE, in EAST ROCKAWAY, New York, RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small K-5 school that works with 330 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within EAST ROCKAWAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 443.

EAST ROCKAWAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,126 students. RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 29% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. Compared to Nassau County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 63.6%; RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 44.1%, -19.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Nassau County shows median household income runs about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 311 students in 2018 compared to 330 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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