SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL

Located at 10 HAWTHORNE LN, in GREAT NECK, New York, SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL is a mid-tier K-5 school that works with 519 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,798 students. SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Asian (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the resource side, SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 21% of students at SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.2%, the actual is 78.4%, a residual of +11.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Nassau County) records that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

Nearest neighbor: GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 85.7%.

SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 519 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 58% to 41% over that span.

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