Public school / Primary
Birch Lane Elementary School
Massapequa Park, New York
- NCES ID
- 361863001683
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Birch Lane Elementary School is a public primary school in Massapequa Park, New York, run by Massapequa Union Free School District. It enrols 643 students — the 23158th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
643
Teachers
58.0
Students per teacher
11.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
5.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Massapequa Union Free School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Berner Middle School1,596 students
- 2Massapequa High School1,453 students
- 3Birch Lane Elementary School643 students
- 4Fairfield Elementary School530 students
- 5East Lake Elementary School512 students
- 6Unqua Elementary School497 students
- 7Mhs Ames Campus442 students
- 8Mckenna Elementary School438 students
- Enrollment+41.9%
- Teachers+56.8%
- Students per teacher−3.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−90.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory