Public school / Primary
David Paterson School
Hempstead, New York
- NCES ID
- 361413001151
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
David Paterson School is a public primary school in Hempstead, New York, run by Hempstead Union Free School District. It enrols 404 students — the 50289th 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
404
Teachers
24.0
Students per teacher
16.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
60.6%
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 Hempstead 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.
- 1Hempstead High School1,866 students
- 2Alverta B Gray Schultz Middle School938 students
- 3Rhodes Academy of Humanities and the Arts739 students
- 4Barack Obama Elementary School501 students
- 5Jackson Main Elementary School495 students
- 6Prospect Elementary School414 students
- 7David Paterson School404 students
- 8Joseph Mcneil School401 students
- Enrollment−10.8%
- Teachers−35.1%
- Students per teacher+46.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+3.9%
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