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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the ABBEY LANE SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
607
Elementary
DISTRICT 510 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361716001518
ABBEY LANE SCHOOL
239 GARDINERS AVE, LEVITTOWN, NY 11756 · (516) 434-7402 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL607 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
209 students
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 120 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
64.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 73.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ABBEY LANE SCHOOL
ABBEY LANE SCHOOL's state test result (62.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABBEY LANE SCHOOL this school | 607 | 34.4% | 62.0% |
| NORTHSIDE SCHOOL LEVITTOWN | 560 | 32.3% | 56.4% |
| OTSEGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIX HILLS | 574 | 33.1% | 59.9% |
| MICHAEL F STOKES SCHOOL LEVITTOWN | 511 | 36.2% | 67.1% |
| PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS FOREST HILLS | 605 | 25.8% | 84.7% |
| PS 193 ALFRED J KENNEDY WHITESTONE | 559 | 43.5% | 72.3% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ABBEY LANE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #675 of 2,335 | #100 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #532 of 2,342 ▼ 50 | #86 of 172 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #766 of 2,343 ▲ 69 | #109 of 172 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 607 | #437 of 2,585 | #31 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #1,245 of 2,338 | #107 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.0% | #317 of 2,388 | #31 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.4% | #1,861 of 2,534 | #57 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #1,368 of 1,757 | #76 of 116 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
607
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 633
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 11.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 607 | 50.9 | 11.9:1 | 34% (209) |
| 2023-24 | 630 | 49.2 | 12.8:1 | 29% (185) |
| 2022-23 | 644 | 47.4 | 13.6:1 | 29% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 625 | 53 | 11.8:1 | 27% (167) |
| 2017-18 | 650 | 51 | 12.7:1 | 22% (144) |
| 2015-16 | 651 | 51 | 12.8:1 | 27% (177) |
| 2010-11 | 637 | 54 | 11.8:1 | 17% (107) |
| 2000-01 | 829 | 47 | 17.6:1 | 8% (68) |
| 1990-91 | 633 | 34 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ABBEY LANE SCHOOL.
About ABBEY LANE SCHOOL
This page covers ABBEY LANE SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school in LEVITTOWN, New York. Federal data show 607 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs ABBEY LANE SCHOOL along with 9 other schools, enrolling 7,062 students in total.
Of every 100 students at ABBEY LANE SCHOOL, about 42 are White, the largest group. After that, the student body is 29% Asian, 25% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Nassau County is about 57% White. A diversity index of 68% means there is a 68% chance two randomly chosen students at ABBEY LANE SCHOOL are from different groups.
With 50.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.9:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at ABBEY LANE SCHOOL, 34% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 31% average for public schools in Nassau County.
ABBEY LANE SCHOOL holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 66% of New York public elementary schools.
ABBEY LANE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.0%, compared with a predicted 62.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Nassau County area, the median household earns about $146,202 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. ABBEY LANE SCHOOL shares Nassau County with 314 other public schools.
WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits about 0.5 miles from ABBEY LANE SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. ABBEY LANE SCHOOL places 6th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 3%.
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Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,295 students
- DIVISION AVENUE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,044 students
- JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 899 students
- WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- EAST BROADWAY SCHOOLElementary · 662 students
- NORTHSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 560 students
Other schools in LEVITTOWN
- GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,295 students
- DIVISION AVENUE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,044 students
- JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 899 students
- WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- ISLAND TREES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 725 students
- ISLAND TREES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 701 students
Nearby schools
- WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 765
- GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 542
- SUMMIT LANE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 376
- PARKWAY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 570
- DIVISION AVENUE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,044
- J FRED SPARKE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 323
Frequently asked questions
About ABBEY LANE SCHOOLHow large is ABBEY LANE SCHOOL?
ABBEY LANE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 607 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does ABBEY LANE SCHOOL serve?
ABBEY LANE SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at ABBEY LANE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at ABBEY LANE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ABBEY LANE SCHOOL?
At ABBEY LANE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 42% White, 25% Hispanic, 2% Black, 29% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is ABBEY LANE SCHOOL public or private?
ABBEY LANE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.