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Enrollment
445
Elementary
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362319003245
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL
301 N DELAWARE AVE, N MASSAPEQUA, NY 11758 · (516) 992-7600 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL445 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
15.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
5%
24 students
DISTRICT 12% · 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 | 105 | 24% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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 PLAINEDGE 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
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
59.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 EASTPLAIN SCHOOL
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL's state test result (59.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EASTPLAIN SCHOOL this school | 445 | 5.4% | 59.5% |
| MILLER AVENUE SCHOOL SHOREHAM | 408 | 4.9% | N/A |
| INCREASE MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GOLDENS BRIDGE | 479 | 6.7% | 82.0% |
| WADING RIVER SCHOOL WADING RIVER | 438 | 5.3% | 62.7% |
| FOREST LAKE SCHOOL WANTAGH | 390 | 6.7% | 65.5% |
| UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASSAPEQUA | 496 | 6.0% | 61.5% |
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 EASTPLAIN SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.5% | #772 of 2,335 | #114 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #683 of 2,342 ▲ 20 | #106 of 172 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #1,003 of 2,343 ▼ 229 | #127 of 172 ▼ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 445 | #1,103 of 2,585 | #88 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #2,132 of 2,338 | #175 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.9% | #1,696 of 2,388 | #160 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 5.4% | #2,487 of 2,534 | #178 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +44.5% | #51 of 606 | #1 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
445
+129 (+41%) vs 2020
+30% since 1990-91, when it was 341
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 445 | 28.3 | 15.7:1 | 5% (24) |
| 2023-24 | 440 | 25.9 | 17.0:1 | 7% (29) |
| 2022-23 | 431 | 26.6 | 16.2:1 | 4% (16) |
| 2020-21 | 316 | 28 | 11.3:1 | 3% (11) |
| 2017-18 | 308 | 23.5 | 13.1:1 | 7% (21) |
| 2015-16 | 320 | 22 | 14.6:1 | 10% (33) |
| 2010-11 | 418 | 28 | 14.9:1 | 6% (27) |
| 2000-01 | 382 | 22 | 17.4:1 | 7% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 341 | 24 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EASTPLAIN SCHOOL.
About EASTPLAIN SCHOOL
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in N MASSAPEQUA, New York, one of the schools in PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It reported 445 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL is part of PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, where 5 schools serve 2,959 students.
The largest group at EASTPLAIN SCHOOL is White students, at 78%. Other students are 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County residents are about 57% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, EASTPLAIN SCHOOL scores 37%.
With 28.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.7:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Roughly 5% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Nassau County is 31%.
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 50% of New York public elementary schools.
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 59.5%, compared with a predicted 73.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Nassau County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 315 public schools in the county, enrolling about 200,775, EASTPLAIN SCHOOL among them.
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL's nearest public school is JOHN H WEST SCHOOL (about 0.7 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 64.7%; EASTPLAIN SCHOOL's is 59.5%, ranking 5th of 9.
In the federal locale system, EASTPLAIN SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, federal data counted 316 students at EASTPLAIN SCHOOL; in 2024-25, 445. The grades served may not have been the same in both years. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 11.3:1 to 15.7:1.
The allk12 page for EASTPLAIN SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PLAINEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 856 students
- PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 661 students
- CHARLES E SCHWARTING SCHOOLElementary · 524 students
- JOHN H WEST SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN H WEST SCHOOL0.7 mi · 473
- PLAINEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 856
- ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 536
- EAST BROADWAY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 662
- PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 661
- CHARLES E SCHWARTING SCHOOL1.3 mi · 524
Frequently asked questions
About EASTPLAIN SCHOOLHow many students attend EASTPLAIN SCHOOL?
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL enrolls approximately 445 students in grades PK-05.
Is EASTPLAIN SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at EASTPLAIN SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.7:1 students per teacher at EASTPLAIN SCHOOL.
How diverse is EASTPLAIN SCHOOL?
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL reports a student body of 78% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees EASTPLAIN SCHOOL?
EASTPLAIN SCHOOL is overseen by PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.