Enrollment
239
Elementary
DISTRICT 285 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST ROCKAWAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360996000768
CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
55 CENTRE AVE, EAST ROCKAWAY, NY 11518 · (516) 887-8300 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL239 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
10.2:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
76 students
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 45 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 29 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 31 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 34 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 32% larger than its 6th grade class (34).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→EAST ROCKAWAY JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within EAST ROCKAWAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
72.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +20.0pp since 2023
Math
63.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 48.0% |
% 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
56.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (56.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 239 | 31.8% | 56.3% |
| FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL PEARL RIVER | 262 | 31.3% | 63.8% |
| J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BEACON | 234 | 32.1% | 53.0% |
| FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL WEST BABYLON | 278 | 29.5% | 36.1% |
| EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LONG BEACH | 271 | 27.3% | 57.7% |
| MUSCOTA NEW YORK | 290 | 34.5% | 75.6% |
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 CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #914 of 2,335 | #129 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #971 of 2,342 ▲ 407 | #134 of 172 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #462 of 2,343 ▲ 331 | #66 of 172 ▲ 43 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 239 | #2,261 of 2,585 | #177 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #520 of 2,338 | #34 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.2% | #549 of 2,388 | #51 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.8% | #1,927 of 2,534 | #62 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.9% | #475 of 1,757 | #13 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
239
-42 (-15%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 311
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 239 | 23.4 | 10.2:1 | 32% (76) |
| 2023-24 | 241 | 22.7 | 10.6:1 | 27% (65) |
| 2022-23 | 256 | 24.1 | 10.6:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2020-21 | 281 | 24 | 11.7:1 | 26% (74) |
| 2017-18 | 314 | 20 | 15.7:1 | 26% (83) |
| 2015-16 | 332 | 20 | 16.6:1 | 27% (91) |
| 2010-11 | 351 | 26 | 13.5:1 | 16% (56) |
| 2000-01 | 343 | 20 | 17.1:1 | 15% (53) |
| 1990-91 | 311 | 24 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL runs as a small elementary school in EAST ROCKAWAY, New York. The school had 239 students in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
In EAST ROCKAWAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 3 schools enroll a combined 1,126 students.
CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 49%. Smaller groups are 35% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 57% of Nassau County residents are White. By the diversity index, CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 63%.
With 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 10.2:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 32%. That is close to the 31% average for public schools in Nassau County.
The allk12 Grade for CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is B-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 54% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 7.0 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Census Bureau estimates for Nassau County show that median household income is about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 315 public schools operate in Nassau County, serving about 200,775 students.
The nearest other public school, EAST ROCKAWAY JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th of 8 on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 239, 15% below the 281 of 2020-21. The number of students per teacher fell from 11.7 to 10.2 over 4 years.
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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
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Other schools in EAST ROCKAWAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EAST ROCKAWAY JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 557 students
- RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 330 students
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- EAST ROCKAWAY JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 557 students
- RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 330 students
- WAVERLY PARK SCHOOLElementary · 197 students
Nearby schools
- EAST ROCKAWAY JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 557
- KINDERGARTEN CENTER0.5 mi · 163
- MARION STREET SCHOOL0.6 mi · 435
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 149
- LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 846
- RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 330
Frequently asked questions
About CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 239 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 49% White, 35% Hispanic, 5% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by EAST ROCKAWAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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