SEAFORD HARBOR SCHOOL

SEAFORD HARBOR SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in SEAFORD, New York, overseen by SEAFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 544 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 23% bigger than typical.

SEAFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,184 students. SEAFORD HARBOR SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SEAFORD HARBOR SCHOOL records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 10% of students at SEAFORD HARBOR SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

With demographic context factored in, SEAFORD HARBOR SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate median household earnings sit near $146,202, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), SEAFORD HARBOR SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MANDALAY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SEAFORD HARBOR SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. SEAFORD HARBOR SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 576 (now 544). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 6% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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