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Enrollment
536
Elementary
DISTRICT 574 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361098000875
ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
101 ALBANY AVE, NORTH MASSAPEQUA, NY 11758 · (516) 434-5510 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL536 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
12.0:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
89 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 13 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
71.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
70.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.0% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 77.0% |
% 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
65.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (65.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 536 | 16.6% | 65.8% |
| CENTRAL SCHOOL LARCHMONT | 520 | 17.1% | 74.5% |
| SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SMITHTOWN | 517 | 19.0% | 58.0% |
| THOMAS J LAHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENLAWN | 602 | 16.9% | 66.2% |
| PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON NEW YORK | 529 | 14.6% | 85.0% |
| WILLIAM O SCHAEFER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAPPAN | 559 | 15.9% | N/A |
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 ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #533 of 2,335 | #91 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #711 of 2,342 ▼ 334 | #108 of 172 ▼ 40 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #492 of 2,343 ▼ 55 | #73 of 172 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 536 | #686 of 2,585 | #46 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #1,273 of 2,338 | #109 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.1% | #1,104 of 2,388 | #107 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.6% | #2,315 of 2,534 | #130 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.8% | #1,486 of 1,757 | #89 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
536
+42 (+9%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 766
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 536 | 44.7 | 12.0:1 | 17% (89) |
| 2023-24 | 524 | 48.9 | 10.7:1 | 19% (100) |
| 2022-23 | 507 | 48.4 | 10.5:1 | 10% (51) |
| 2020-21 | 494 | 46 | 10.7:1 | 9% (46) |
| 2017-18 | 563 | 43 | 13.1:1 | 13% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 607 | 45 | 13.5:1 | 15% (92) |
| 2010-11 | 671 | 59 | 11.4:1 | 8% (56) |
| 2000-01 | 914 | 63 | 14.5:1 | 6% (52) |
| 1990-91 | 766 | 50 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a mid-sized elementary school, ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in NORTH MASSAPEQUA, New York. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 536 students on the rolls. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 6 schools enroll 5,180 students.
More than half of enrollment at ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White: 65%. The remaining shares are 20% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% Black, and 4% multiracial. Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 53%.
There are about 12.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has 44.7. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 17%. That is lower than the 31% average for public schools in Nassau County.
Among New York public elementary schools, ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 68%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (65.8%) and its predicted rate (68.9%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
For Nassau County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $146,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 315 public schools in the county, enrolling about 200,775, ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, FARMINGDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.7 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd of 9 on average proficiency.
ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts increased from 494 (2020-21) to 536 (2024-25). From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 10.7:1 to 12.0:1.
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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 FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FARMINGDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,704 students
- HOWITT SCHOOLMiddle · 1,180 students
- WOODWARD PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 815 students
- SALTZMAN EAST MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 592 students
- NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 353 students
Nearby schools
- FARMINGDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,704
- EASTPLAIN SCHOOL0.8 mi · 445
- WOODWARD PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 815
- PLAINEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 856
- MCKENNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 485
- CHARLES E SCHWARTING SCHOOL1.3 mi · 524
Frequently asked questions
About ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 536 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.0:1 students per teacher at ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 65% White, 20% Hispanic, 4% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.