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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
677
High
DISTRICT 483 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361068000843
ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL
478 ELWOOD RD, ELWOOD, NY 11731 · (631) 266-5410 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL677 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
172 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 160 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 165 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 168 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 173 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 11 | 2% |
Student demographics
64%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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ELWOOD 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
95.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
66.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -19.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 95.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 93.0% | 85.0% |
% 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
85.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% 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 ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL
ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (85.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL this school | 677 | 25.4% | 85.5% |
| CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CARLE PLACE | 617 | 24.3% | 80.2% |
| TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL ORANGEBURG | 911 | 23.1% | 89.2% |
| CLINTON SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 846 | 24.1% | 87.2% |
| SPACKENKILL HIGH SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 537 | 28.3% | 89.7% |
| NANUET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NANUET | 745 | 32.5% | 88.2% |
Matched among New York high 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 ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.5% | #117 of 1,135 | #14 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #333 of 1,109 ▼ 185 | #24 of 57 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 95.0% | #69 of 1,135 ▲ 109 | #10 of 56 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 677 | #369 of 1,216 | #47 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #557 of 1,058 | #25 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #193 of 1,070 | #11 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.4% | #1,050 of 1,167 | #36 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #560 of 743 | #36 of 45 |
Ranked against other public high 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
677
-23 (-3%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 667
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 677 | 60.4 | 11.2:1 | 25% (172) |
| 2023-24 | 676 | 58.9 | 11.5:1 | 25% (172) |
| 2022-23 | 681 | 58.7 | 11.6:1 | 21% (141) |
| 2020-21 | 700 | 58 | 12.1:1 | 22% (157) |
| 2017-18 | 722 | 56.8 | 12.7:1 | 22% (157) |
| 2015-16 | 783 | 56 | 14.0:1 | 20% (153) |
| 2010-11 | 840 | 59 | 14.2:1 | 15% (127) |
| 2000-01 | 624 | 42 | 14.9:1 | 12% (72) |
| 1990-91 | 667 | 49 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL.
About ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL
ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL runs as a medium-sized high school in ELWOOD, New York. It educates 677 students in grades 9 through 12.
ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 1,933 students spread across 4 schools.
White students are the majority at ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL, with 52% of enrollment. Other groups make up 27% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 6% Black, and 3% multiracial. Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1 at ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL, with 60.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 25%. Compared with the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County, the school's rate is lower.
allk12 grades ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 85.5%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 65.7%.
Census estimates describe Suffolk County this way: the median household income is $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Besides ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL, Suffolk County has 342 other public schools.
The closest other public school is ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 67.7% on proficiency, and ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL is above that at 85.5%.
The NCES locale for ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH 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.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 23 fewer students in 2024-25.
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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 ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 425 students
- JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 421 students
- HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 410 students
Other schools in ELWOOD
- ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 425 students
- HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 410 students
Nearby schools
- ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 425
- JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 421
- HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 410
- THOMAS J LAHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 602
- HARBORFIELDS HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 923
- PULASKI ROAD SCHOOL1.5 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL?
ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 677 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL serve?
ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL have?
ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL employs 60 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL?
At ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 52% White, 27% Hispanic, 6% Black, 12% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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