SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 10 NEWBURY RD, in PORT WASHINGTON, New York, SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized primary school that hosts 435 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within PORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 7 schools in PORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,298 students total), SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

In terms of school funding signals, SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 2% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.2%, the actual is 79.0%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CARRIE PALMER WEBER MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 84.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 451 students in 2018 compared to 435 in 2025. The White share of enrollment climbed from 69% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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