WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL

Set in ROSLYN HEIGHTS, New York, WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL is a tight-knit junior high, run under EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 372 students across grades 5 through 7. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL sits 30% smaller than that benchmark.

EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,571 students; WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 36% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 5% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.0%, the actual is 85.5%, a residual of +12.4 points.

In the area at large, Nassau County reports that 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%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ROSLYN MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 82.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL has decreased 5%, going from 393 students in 2018 to 372 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 66% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 in 2025.

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