Public school / Primary
California Avenue Elementary School
Uniondale, New York
- NCES ID
- 362928003938
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
California Avenue Elementary School is a public primary school in Uniondale, New York, run by Uniondale Union Free School District. It enrols 663 students — the 21693rd 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
663
Teachers
60.0
Students per teacher
11.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
63.0%
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 Uniondale 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.
- 1Uniondale High School2,080 students
- 2Lawrence Road Middle School682 students
- 3Turtle Hook Middle School669 students
- 4California Avenue Elementary School663 students
- 5Northern Parkway Elementary School543 students
- 6Grand Avenue Elementary School532 students
- 7Walnut Street Elementary School452 students
- 8Smith Street Elementary School408 students
- Enrollment+46.4%
- Teachers+62.2%
- Students per teacher−3.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+8.1%
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