UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As an average-sized elementary-level community in MASSAPEQUA, New York, UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 496 students from grades K through 5, part of MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 9 schools and 6,461 students, UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). The remainder looks like 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 6% of students are eligible 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 below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.8%, the actual is 61.5%, a residual of -11.3 points.

Across the wider county, Nassau County reports that median household income runs about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 55.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 8%, going from 539 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 89% to 80%.

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