WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL

WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in VALLEY STREAM, New York, run under VALLEY STREAM 24 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 303 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 443.

VALLEY STREAM 24 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,036 students; WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL shows that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 23% Asian, 23% Black, 11% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 36% of students at WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.8%, the actual is 69.9%, a residual of +8.2 points.

In the broader community, 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 roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BROOKLYN AVENUE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 69.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL has decreased 10%, going from 335 students in 2018 to 303 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 22% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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