Seaford Avenue School Survey Wraps Up Tuesday

As the month of November draws to a close Tuesday it marks the last chance for Seaford residents to fill out an online survey on what should be done with the former Seaford Avenue Elementary School property. The community input poll will stay up on the Seaford School District's website until the end of Tuesday.

Seaford district officials are hoping the survey will give the Board of Education an indication of what residents would support for the property. Any proposal for the parcel on 2161 Seaford Avenue would need to be approved in a referendum vote.

The Seaford Avenue Elementary School was closed in 1981 and served as the home of Five Towns College for the next dozen years before it was relocated to its current home in Dix Hills. The Nassau County Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) had been running programs in the former elementary school in recent years, but in early 2010 decided it no longer needed use of the 1939-built building. 

Some of the many options the district has for the property that are included in the survey are renovating the building to attract a new tenant that would lease the facility, selling the property to a developer, or razing the structure to create expanded athletics fields the district and community can utilize. Some options for developing the land if the property is sold could include creating condominiums or 55 and older housing units while also maintaining the current athletic fields on the site, according to district officials.

As a result of BOCES leaving the Seaford Avenue School property the district is losing out on $445,000 of revenue it had previously received each year for leasing out the facility. The cost of maintaining the vacant building is roughly $100,000 a year, according to district officials.