WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL

WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in VALLEY STREAM, New York, run under VALLEY STREAM 13 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 608 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 37% above the state mean of about 443.

VALLEY STREAM 13 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,054 students; WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 27% Asian, 23% Black, 11% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate median household income runs about $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%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL has showed little movement, going from 600 students in 2018 to 608 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 19% to 27%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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