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Enrollment
416
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362856003836
BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
580 WOODBURY RD, PLAINVIEW, NY 11803 · (516) 364-5798 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL416 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
72 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 43 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 46% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
77.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
88.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 88.0% |
| 2023-24 | 75.0% | 90.0% |
% 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
80.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% 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 BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (80.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 416 | 17.3% | 80.1% |
| PASADENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 455 | 16.7% | 83.7% |
| VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYOSSET | 379 | 12.4% | 84.8% |
| WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYOSSET | 298 | 16.4% | 88.7% |
| SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL GREAT NECK | 519 | 21.2% | 78.4% |
| PS 77 LOWER LAB SCHOOL NEW YORK | 364 | 9.9% | 98.9% |
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 BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #169 of 2,335 | #28 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #186 of 2,342 ▼ 74 | #35 of 172 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #338 of 2,343 ▼ 161 | #57 of 172 ▼ 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 416 | #1,277 of 2,585 | #108 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #625 of 2,338 | #48 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #879 of 2,388 | #89 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.3% | #2,294 of 2,534 | #124 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.6% | #1,305 of 1,757 | #73 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
416
-2 (0%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 390
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 9.3:1
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 | 416 | 39.5 | 10.5:1 | 17% (72) |
| 2023-24 | 422 | 40.3 | 10.5:1 | 14% (61) |
| 2022-23 | 405 | 36 | 11.3:1 | 11% (45) |
| 2020-21 | 418 | 45 | 9.3:1 | 8% (34) |
| 2017-18 | 450 | 35 | 12.8:1 | 6% (25) |
| 2015-16 | 422 | 31 | 13.6:1 | 3% (13) |
| 2010-11 | 419 | 29 | 14.4:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 459 | 33 | 13.9:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 390 | 23 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of PLAINVIEW, New York. A federal count lists 416 students at the school, in kindergarten through 5.
BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls under SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 10 schools enrolling 6,980 students.
BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 55% Asian by enrollment. Other reported shares: 35% White, 5% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 12% Asian among all Nassau County residents. The school's diversity index is 57%, meaning two students picked at random have a 57% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 10.5:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's lunch program data list 17% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
The model predicts 68.6% for a school in New York with BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 80.1%.
Nassau County census figures show that the median household income is $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 315 public schools in Nassau County, enrolling about 200,775 students in all.
The shortest distance from BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to STRATFORD ROAD SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 79.3% proficiency; BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 80.1%.
NCES assigns BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (418) and 2024-25 (416). Its ratio of students to teachers was 9.3:1 in 2020-21, and 10.5:1 in 2024-25.
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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 SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 951 students
- SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 460 students
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 450 students
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
Other schools in PLAINVIEW
- PLAINVIEW-OLD BETHPAGE/JFK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,720 students
- PLAINVIEW-OLD BETHPAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 953 students
- H B MATTLIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 783 students
- STRATFORD ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 621 students
- JUDY JACOBS PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 467 students
- PASADENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 455 students
Nearby schools
- STRATFORD ROAD SCHOOL0.7 mi · 621
- WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 298
- JUDY JACOBS PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 467
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 951
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 433
- WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 277
Frequently asked questions
About BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 416 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 10.5:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 35% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 55% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.