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Enrollment
764
Elementary
DISTRICT 565 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361062000832
CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL
235 BELMONT BLVD, ELMONT, NY 11003 · (516) 326-5570 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL764 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% 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.
- BBeats 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
10.8:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
455 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 107 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 105 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 53 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 24% smaller than its 6th grade class (105).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
56.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 63.0% |
% 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
54.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL
CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL's state test result (54.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL this school | 764 | 59.6% | 54.1% |
| SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL VALLEY STREAM | 740 | 56.2% | 61.4% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE NEW YORK | 967 | 58.8% | 93.3% |
| PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY BROOKLYN | 918 | 61.1% | 60.3% |
| DUTCH BROADWAY SCHOOL ELMONT | 715 | 56.9% | 59.1% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UPPER WEST NEW YORK | 1,002 | 56.3% | 94.9% |
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 CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #994 of 2,335 | #135 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,147 of 2,342 ▼ 331 | #146 of 172 ▼ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,103 of 2,343 ▼ 180 | #132 of 172 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 764 | #188 of 2,585 | #9 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #724 of 2,338 | #60 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.9% | #226 of 2,388 | #16 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.6% | #1,170 of 2,534 | #24 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.8% | #1,033 of 1,757 | #48 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
764
-27 (-3%) vs 2020
+41% since 1990-91, when it was 541
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 764 | 71 | 10.8:1 | 60% (455) |
| 2023-24 | 766 | 68.7 | 11.2:1 | 63% (482) |
| 2022-23 | 768 | 75.8 | 10.1:1 | 57% (441) |
| 2020-21 | 791 | 67 | 11.8:1 | 58% (460) |
| 2017-18 | 866 | 67.6 | 12.8:1 | 63% (546) |
| 2015-16 | 881 | 63 | 14.0:1 | 67% (593) |
| 2010-11 | 872 | 63 | 13.8:1 | 59% (518) |
| 2000-01 | 822 | 50 | 16.4:1 | 20% (161) |
| 1990-91 | 541 | 33 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL.
About CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL
CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school with its address in ELMONT, New York. Enrolled students number 764 students, in pre-K through 6. Enrollment is 72% higher than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
ELMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 6 schools and 3,387 students, CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL among them.
The most common group at CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 36%. Other groups make up 31% Black, 27% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The school's diversity index is 70%, meaning two students picked at random have a 70% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at the school number 71 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.8:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 10.8:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 60% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Nassau County is 31%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL is 1.0 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (54.1% versus 53.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
Across Nassau County, 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. Nassau County is home to 315 public schools and about 200,775 public school students.
The next-closest public school is GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL at 7th of 9.
Locale data from NCES put CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL's enrollment dropped from 791 in 2020-21 to 764 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 11.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.8:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 ELMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- DUTCH BROADWAY SCHOOLElementary · 715 students
- COVERT AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 646 students
- GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
- ALDEN TERRACE SCHOOLElementary · 405 students
- STEWART MANOR SCHOOLElementary · 342 students
Other schools in ELMONT
- ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,492 students
- DUTCH BROADWAY SCHOOLElementary · 715 students
- COVERT AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 646 students
- GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
Nearby schools
- GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 515
- DUTCH BROADWAY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 715
- ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,492
- COVERT AVENUE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 646
- FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,308
- SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,572
Frequently asked questions
About CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL?
CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 764 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL serve?
CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL is approximately 10.8:1 (71 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 36% Hispanic, 31% Black, 27% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL public or private?
CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ELMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.