RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL

Set in CARLE PLACE, New York, RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, operated by CARLE PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 407 students across grades 3 through 6.

CARLE PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,307 students. RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 28% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.2%, the actual is 70.8%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate median household earnings sit near $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CHERRY LANE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 66.4%.

RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL has declined 3%, going from 420 students in 2018 to 407 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 72% to 50%.

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