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What's one thing DANIEL STREET SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
495
Elementary
DISTRICT 405 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361738001543
DANIEL STREET SCHOOL
289 DANIEL ST, LINDENHURST, NY 11757 · (631) 867-3300 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL495 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
10.9:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
208 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 27 | 5% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
Based on grade levels within LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 61.0% |
% 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
43.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 DANIEL STREET SCHOOL
DANIEL STREET SCHOOL's state test result (43.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANIEL STREET SCHOOL this school | 495 | 42.0% | 43.9% |
| WALDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WALDEN | 447 | 40.5% | 43.0% |
| TERRYVILLE ROAD SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 471 | 41.4% | 31.2% |
| TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WASHINGTONVILLE | 522 | 38.7% | 46.6% |
| NORTH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HYDE PARK | 463 | 42.8% | 42.0% |
| NOKOMIS SCHOOL HOLBROOK | 496 | 35.5% | 39.6% |
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 DANIEL STREET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #1,441 of 2,335 | #96 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,412 of 2,342 ▼ 504 | #98 of 169 ▼ 41 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,750 of 2,343 ▼ 70 | #120 of 169 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 495 | #855 of 2,585 | #81 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #770 of 2,338 | #67 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.5% | #778 of 2,388 | #70 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.0% | #1,638 of 2,534 | #71 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #1,337 of 1,757 | #90 of 137 |
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
495
-18 (-4%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 676
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
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 | 495 | 45.6 | 10.9:1 | 42% (208) |
| 2023-24 | 491 | 44.7 | 11.0:1 | 40% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 512 | 44.9 | 11.4:1 | 37% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 513 | 44 | 11.7:1 | 28% (142) |
| 2017-18 | 533 | 43 | 12.4:1 | 30% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 549 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 34% (185) |
| 2010-11 | 594 | 47 | 12.6:1 | 19% (113) |
| 2000-01 | 764 | 41 | 18.6:1 | 10% (80) |
| 1990-91 | 676 | 40 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DANIEL STREET SCHOOL.
About DANIEL STREET SCHOOL
In LINDENHURST, New York, DANIEL STREET SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 495 students.
DANIEL STREET SCHOOL is in LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district with 5,560 students across 8 schools.
DANIEL STREET SCHOOL is 55% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 32% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, and 2% multiracial. In Suffolk County overall, about 66% of residents are White. DANIEL STREET SCHOOL's diversity index is 58%, against a US figure of 70%.
Staffing totals 45.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.9:1. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 42%. For comparison, public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, DANIEL STREET SCHOOL receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
DANIEL STREET SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 43.9%, compared with a predicted 59.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census Bureau estimates for Suffolk County show that the median household income is $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. DANIEL STREET SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in the county.
Of nearby public schools, LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of DANIEL STREET SCHOOL. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, DANIEL STREET SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
2024-25 enrollment was 495, a 4% decrease from 513 in 2020-21.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,868 students
- LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,260 students
- WILLIAM RALL SCHOOLElementary · 539 students
- ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
- ALLEGHANY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 319 students
- WEST GATES AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 303 students
Other schools in LINDENHURST
- LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,868 students
- LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,260 students
- WILLIAM RALL SCHOOLElementary · 539 students
- ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
- ALLEGHANY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 319 students
- WEST GATES AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 303 students
Nearby schools
- LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,868
- ALLEGHANY AVENUE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 319
- LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,260
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 282
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 348
- WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 817
Frequently asked questions
About DANIEL STREET SCHOOLHow large is DANIEL STREET SCHOOL?
DANIEL STREET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 495 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does DANIEL STREET SCHOOL serve?
DANIEL STREET SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does DANIEL STREET SCHOOL have?
DANIEL STREET SCHOOL employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the student diversity at DANIEL STREET SCHOOL?
Student demographics at DANIEL STREET SCHOOL are roughly 55% White, 32% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is DANIEL STREET SCHOOL public or private?
DANIEL STREET SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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