WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL

As a low-enrollment primary school in SOUTH HEMPSTEAD, New York, WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL hosts 286 students from grades K through 5, part of ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 35% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 7 schools in ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,276 students total), WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL logs that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. Compared to Nassau County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 73.9%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Nassau County put 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. WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

Nearest neighbor: LENOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL has declined 3%, going from 294 students in 2018 to 286 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 70% to 57%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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