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Enrollment
797
Elementary
DISTRICT 708 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360984000754
BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL
500 MAY LN, EAST MEADOW, NY 11554 · (516) 564-6500 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL797 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
141 students
DISTRICT 28% · 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 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 130 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 129 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 145 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 139 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (127) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (139).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
83.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
93.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 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 up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 93.0% |
| 2023-24 | 75.0% | 91.0% |
% 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
82.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL
BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL's state test result (82.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL this school | 797 | 17.7% | 82.8% |
| PS/IS 78 LONG ISLAND CITY | 799 | 23.2% | 80.2% |
| PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN FOREST HILLS | 766 | 25.3% | 81.2% |
| JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL FLORAL PARK | 674 | 24.9% | 75.0% |
| BATTERY PARK CITY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 797 | 22.6% | 82.7% |
| BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL WESTBURY | 895 | 23.9% | 73.0% |
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 BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.8% | #129 of 2,335 | #18 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #98 of 2,342 no change | #7 of 172 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #183 of 2,343 ▼ 14 | #23 of 172 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 797 | #154 of 2,585 | #6 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #1,286 of 2,338 | #110 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.8% | #186 of 2,388 | #13 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.7% | #2,287 of 2,534 | #122 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.6% | #360 of 606 | #43 of 70 |
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
797
+39 (+5%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 930
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 797 | 66.3 | 12.0:1 | 18% (141) |
| 2023-24 | 786 | 63.3 | 12.4:1 | 18% (144) |
| 2022-23 | 761 | 64.7 | 11.8:1 | 20% (149) |
| 2020-21 | 758 | 56 | 13.5:1 | 17% (131) |
| 2017-18 | 748 | 49.8 | 15.0:1 | 18% (131) |
| 2015-16 | 705 | 46 | 15.3:1 | 18% (128) |
| 2010-11 | 745 | 49 | 15.2:1 | 10% (77) |
| 2000-01 | 886 | 56 | 15.8:1 | 9% (77) |
| 1990-91 | 930 | 59 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL.
About BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL
BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL runs as a high-enrollment elementary school in EAST MEADOW, New York. The school has 797 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 80% higher.
The district, EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 9 schools serving 7,793 students.
About 37% of students at BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL are White, the largest single group. Beyond that, enrollment is 33% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 3% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 57%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
With 66.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.0:1. 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 BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL, 18% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 93% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 68.5% for BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL. The school posts 82.8%, 14.3 points above the prediction.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Nassau County show that the median household earns about $146,202 a year, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Across Nassau County, 315 public schools serve about 200,775 students.
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 57.3%; BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL's is 82.8%, ranking 2nd of 9.
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 4 years, enrollment increased by 39 students, from 758 to 797. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.5:1 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 EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EAST MEADOW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,141 students
- W TRESPER CLARKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 898 students
- BOWLING GREEN SCHOOLElementary · 895 students
- MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 838 students
- CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 663 students
Other schools in EAST MEADOW
- EAST MEADOW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,141 students
- MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 838 students
- PARKWAY SCHOOLElementary · 570 students
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 442 students
- COUNTY OF NASSAU/CORRECTIONAL CENTERElementary
Nearby schools
- WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 505
- UNIONDALE HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,106
- WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,141
- TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 637
- HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 286
- MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 838
Frequently asked questions
About BARNUM WOODS SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL?
BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL enrolls approximately 797 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL serve?
BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL is approximately 12.0:1 (66 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL?
At BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 37% White, 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 33% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL in?
BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL is part of EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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