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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the ARCHER STREET SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
433
Elementary
DISTRICT 415 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361155000909
ARCHER STREET SCHOOL
255 ARCHER ST, FREEPORT, NY 11520 · (516) 867-5250 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 57% 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.
- 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
8.8:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
330 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 125 | 29% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 50% smaller than its 4th grade class (105).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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 FREEPORT 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 61.0% |
% 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
50.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 ARCHER STREET SCHOOL
ARCHER STREET SCHOOL's state test result (50.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCHER STREET SCHOOL this school | 433 | 76.2% | 50.3% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - WASHINGTON HEIGHTS NEW YORK | 410 | 77.6% | 85.3% |
| JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW ROCHELLE | 500 | 73.8% | 42.8% |
| HEMPSTEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRING VALLEY | 459 | 81.3% | 22.6% |
| ANTHONY ALFANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CENTRAL ISLIP | 491 | 73.3% | 30.4% |
| LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL INWOOD | 419 | 81.1% | 38.3% |
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 ARCHER STREET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.3% | #1,158 of 2,335 | #146 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #805 of 2,342 ▲ 84 | #115 of 172 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,794 of 2,343 ▼ 173 | #162 of 172 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 433 | #1,176 of 2,585 | #99 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.8:1 | #152 of 2,338 | #8 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.4% | #1,714 of 2,388 | #163 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.2% | #867 of 2,534 | #6 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.9% | #247 of 1,757 | #5 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
433
-115 (-21%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 433 | 49.2 | 8.8:1 | 76% (330) |
| 2023-24 | 449 | 49.5 | 9.1:1 | 67% (299) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 48 | 10.3:1 | 75% (373) |
| 2020-21 | 548 | 41 | 13.4:1 | 74% (406) |
| 2017-18 | 636 | 47 | 13.5:1 | 81% (516) |
| 2015-16 | 708 | 45 | 15.7:1 | 80% (563) |
| 2010-11 | 511 | 44 | 11.6:1 | 69% (351) |
| 2000-01 | 582 | 42 | 13.9:1 | 43% (251) |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 48 | 11.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ARCHER STREET SCHOOL.
About ARCHER STREET SCHOOL
ARCHER STREET SCHOOL is one of the public schools in FREEPORT, New York. It is a mid-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 433 students in kindergarten through 4.
FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 8 schools; together they serve 6,125 students.
More than half of enrollment at ARCHER STREET SCHOOL is Hispanic: 78%. Enrollment also includes 15% Black and 2% White. The school's Hispanic share is 60 points above the 19% share among Nassau County residents. The diversity index for ARCHER STREET SCHOOL is 36%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 49.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 8.8 students per teacher. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. The school reported 76% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Nassau County report 31%.
On the allk12 Grade, ARCHER STREET SCHOOL lands at B, ahead of 57% of New York public elementary schools.
ARCHER STREET SCHOOL is 3.3 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (50.3% versus 47.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
The county, Nassau County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $146,202 a year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting ARCHER STREET SCHOOL, Nassau County has 315 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, ARCHER STREET SCHOOL is closest to LEO F GIBLYN SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, ARCHER STREET SCHOOL is 6th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, ARCHER STREET SCHOOL enrolled 548 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 433. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.4:1 to 8.8:1.
This page is set up for the ARCHER STREET SCHOOL community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,244 students
- JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 924 students
- CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOLMiddle · 882 students
- LEO F GIBLYN SCHOOLElementary · 519 students
- BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
- NEW VISIONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
Other schools in FREEPORT
- FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,244 students
- JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 924 students
- CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOLMiddle · 882 students
- LEO F GIBLYN SCHOOLElementary · 519 students
- BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
- NEW VISIONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
Nearby schools
- LEO F GIBLYN SCHOOL0.4 mi · 519
- BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 515
- NEW VISIONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 433
- JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 924
- FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 2,244
- COLUMBUS AVENUE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 175
Frequently asked questions
About ARCHER STREET SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ARCHER STREET SCHOOL?
ARCHER STREET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 433 students in grades KG-04.
Is ARCHER STREET SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ARCHER STREET SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does ARCHER STREET SCHOOL have?
ARCHER STREET SCHOOL employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.8:1.
What is the student diversity at ARCHER STREET SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ARCHER STREET SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 78% Hispanic, 15% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is ARCHER STREET SCHOOL in?
ARCHER STREET SCHOOL is part of FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.