ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL

ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL, an intimate K-5 school in VALLEY STREAM, New York, part of VALLEY STREAM 24 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 376 students, covering grades K through 6.

VALLEY STREAM 24 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,036 students. ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 25% Black, 25% Asian, 7% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.0%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Nassau County shows median household income runs about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

The closest other public school is VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 415 (now 376). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 22% to 7%.

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