SCHOOL 8

As an average-sized elementary campus in OCEANSIDE, New York, SCHOOL 8 instructs 433 students from grades 1 through 6, run under OCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

OCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,465 students. SCHOOL 8 is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SCHOOL 8 logs that 58% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Nassau County as a whole.

On the resource side, SCHOOL 8 shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SCHOOL 8 higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHOOL 8 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.5%, the actual is 65.7%, a residual of -2.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Nassau County put median household earnings sit near $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), SCHOOL 8 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SCHOOL 4, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL 8 ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 414 students in 2018 compared to 433 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 72% to 58% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.