SCHOOL 2

SCHOOL 2 operates as a moderately sized primary school in OCEANSIDE, New York, operated by OCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 407 students spanning grades 1 through 6.

OCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,465 students; SCHOOL 2 is among them.

On the student-mix side, SCHOOL 2 lists that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, SCHOOL 2 logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHOOL 2 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.0%, the actual is 59.5%, a residual of -7.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Nassau County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, 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), SCHOOL 2 is one campus in the mix.

CASTLETON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL OF OCEANSIDE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL 2. On composite proficiency, SCHOOL 2 comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 407 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 72% to 61% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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