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Enrollment
895
Elementary
DISTRICT 708 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360984000755
BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL
2340 STEWART AVE, WESTBURY, NY 11590 · (516) 876-7480 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL895 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% 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.
- 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
10.0:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
214 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 | 106 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 123 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 146 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 159 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 180 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 170 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 11 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 38% smaller than its 5th grade class (170).
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
77.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
82.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp 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 82 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 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 82.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 81.0% |
% 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
73.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL
BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL's state test result (73.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL this school | 895 | 23.9% | 73.0% |
| BATTERY PARK CITY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 797 | 22.6% | 82.7% |
| 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% |
| BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL EAST MEADOW | 797 | 17.7% | 82.8% |
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 BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #305 of 2,335 | #61 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #303 of 2,342 ▼ 20 | #55 of 172 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #330 of 2,343 ▲ 73 | #55 of 172 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 895 | #81 of 2,585 | #2 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #427 of 2,338 | #27 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #153 of 2,388 | #10 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.9% | #2,124 of 2,534 | #82 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.4% | #210 of 606 | #19 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
895
+46 (+5%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 1,026
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 895 | 89.7 | 10.0:1 | 24% (214) |
| 2023-24 | 911 | 89.3 | 10.2:1 | 21% (194) |
| 2022-23 | 898 | 80.9 | 11.1:1 | 22% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 849 | 73 | 11.6:1 | 21% (176) |
| 2017-18 | 789 | 64 | 12.3:1 | 23% (180) |
| 2015-16 | 763 | 55 | 13.9:1 | 23% (172) |
| 2010-11 | 728 | 61 | 11.9:1 | 10% (73) |
| 2000-01 | 905 | 67 | 13.5:1 | 8% (74) |
| 1990-91 | 1,026 | 67 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL.
About BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL
BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL serves students in WESTBURY, New York, as a high-enrollment elementary school. Enrolled students number 895 students, in kindergarten through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL along with 8 other schools, enrolling 7,793 students in total.
The most common group at BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL is White students, at 33%. After that, the student body is 31% Hispanic, 27% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Among all residents of Nassau County, the White share is about 57%. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL's 89.7 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 10.0:1. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 24%.
BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 83% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL would be expected to post about 66.2%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 73.0%.
Census Bureau estimates for Nassau County show that the median household income is $146,202, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. There are 315 public schools in Nassau County, enrolling about 200,775 students in all.
W TRESPER CLARKE HIGH SCHOOL is the public school closest to BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL's average proficiency of 73.0% compares with 65.5% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 895, a 5% gain from 849 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 10.0 students per teacher, compared with 11.6 in 2020-21.
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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
- MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 838 students
- BARNUM WOODS SCHOOLElementary · 797 students
- CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 663 students
Other schools in WESTBURY
- WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 945 students
- W TRESPER CLARKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 898 students
- CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 663 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 557 students
- DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- POWELLS LANE SCHOOLElementary · 476 students
Nearby schools
- W TRESPER CLARKE HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 898
- CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 663
- DUTCH LANE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 216
- EAST MEADOW HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,549
- DRYDEN STREET SCHOOL1.3 mi · 415
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 442
Frequently asked questions
About BOWLING GREEN SCHOOLHow large is BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL?
BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL enrolls approximately 895 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL serve?
BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL is approximately 10.0:1 (90 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL?
At BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 33% White, 31% Hispanic, 3% Black, 27% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL in?
BOWLING GREEN SCHOOL is part of EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.