# BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360984000754`
- **School name**: BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL
- **Location**: EAST MEADOW, NY 11554
- **Address**: 500 MAY LN
- **District**: EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3609840`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.70860, -73.57360
- **Phone**: (516)564-6500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 797
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 66
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 17.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.0% (38 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 3.4% (27 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.8%
- **Black/African American**: 23.0%
- **Asian**: 7.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 50.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 18.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.5% — 59 students
- **English Learners**: 4.6% — 36 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,892
- **Federal share**: $1,391
- **State + local share**: $29,501
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 786
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,857,919
- **Federal share**: 9.5%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 60.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $17,888,005

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $91,595
- **Poverty rate**: 5.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,590
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.9 miles (OLD ROOSEVELT FIELD CONTAMINATED GW AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 43
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.48 miles (VACANT LOT ADJACENT TO 273 BABYLON TURNPIKE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 79% (this school: 75%)
- **WATSON SCHOOL** — 4.9 mi away, 78% (this school: 75%)
- **WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 77% (this school: 75%)
- **SEARINGTOWN SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 77% (this school: 75%)
- **ROSLYN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 76% (this school: 75%)

### math proficiency
- **MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 93.8% (this school: 91%)
- **WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 92.67% (this school: 91%)
- **ROSLYN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 95% (this school: 91%)
- **GEORGE A JACKSON SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/barnum-woods-school-east-meadow/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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