WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL

WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL is one of the sizable primary schools in FRANKLIN SQUARE, New York, part of FRANKLIN SQUARE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 782 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 77% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

FRANKLIN SQUARE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,859 students; WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 26% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Nassau County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school lists 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.5%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of -13.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 63.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL has shrank 10%, going from 868 students in 2018 to 782 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 62% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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