Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 461 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362985004007
FOREST LAKE SCHOOL
3100 BELTAGH AVE, WANTAGH, NY 11793 · (516) 679-6470 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of New York public elementary schools
- A-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
12.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
26 students
DISTRICT 11% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 19% |
| Grade 6 | 2 | 1% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · 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
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
83.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 83.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 82.0% |
% 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
65.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% 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 FOREST LAKE SCHOOL
FOREST LAKE SCHOOL's state test result (65.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOREST LAKE SCHOOL this school | 390 | 6.7% | 65.5% |
| FIFTH AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST NORTHPORT | 377 | 7.2% | 63.4% |
| FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTHPORT | 381 | 8.7% | 72.5% |
| WILSON SCHOOL ROCKVILLE CENTRE | 387 | 5.9% | 73.4% |
| SEA CLIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEA CLIFF | 361 | 8.0% | 81.7% |
| MILLER AVENUE SCHOOL SHOREHAM | 408 | 4.9% | N/A |
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 FOREST LAKE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #545 of 2,335 | #93 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #290 of 2,342 ▼ 25 | #54 of 172 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #740 of 2,343 ▲ 34 | #106 of 172 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #1,423 of 2,585 | #117 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,553 of 2,338 | #136 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.2% | #1,723 of 2,388 | #164 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.7% | #2,472 of 2,534 | #170 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.4% | #339 of 606 | #40 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
390
+28 (+8%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 335
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
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 | 390 | 30.5 | 12.8:1 | 7% (26) |
| 2023-24 | 389 | 30.1 | 12.9:1 | 6% (22) |
| 2022-23 | 387 | 16.7 | 23.2:1 | 5% (19) |
| 2020-21 | 362 | 32 | 11.3:1 | 3% (12) |
| 2017-18 | 363 | 22.6 | 16.1:1 | 6% (21) |
| 2015-16 | 353 | 24 | 14.7:1 | 5% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 387 | 32 | 12.1:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2000-01 | 469 | 28 | 16.8:1 | 1% (6) |
| 1990-91 | 335 | 20 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FOREST LAKE SCHOOL.
About FOREST LAKE SCHOOL
WANTAGH, New York, is home to FOREST LAKE SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school. Its 390 students are spread across pre-K through 6.
The district, WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 5 schools serving 2,854 students.
White students make up a majority at FOREST LAKE SCHOOL, at 79%. The remaining students are 13% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Nassau County is about 57% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 36% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 12.8:1, with 30.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That matches the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York fairly closely. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 7%. The 31% average for public schools in Nassau County is 24 points higher.
allk12 grades FOREST LAKE SCHOOL a B. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, FOREST LAKE SCHOOL is 7.0 points below its prediction. Actual: 65.5%. Predicted: 72.5%.
Nassau County census figures show that the median household income is $146,202, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Nassau County is home to 315 public schools and about 200,775 public school students.
The nearest other public school, WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, FOREST LAKE SCHOOL ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies FOREST LAKE SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 28 more students in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 11.3:1 to 12.8:1.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. 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 WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 826 students
- WANTAGH SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 645 students
- MANDALAY SCHOOLElementary · 321 students
Other schools in WANTAGH
- WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 826 students
- WANTAGH SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 645 students
- MANDALAY SCHOOLElementary · 321 students
- LEE ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 312 students
Nearby schools
- WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 826
- WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 645
- WANTAGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 672
- SAW MILL ROAD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 700
- MARTIN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 328
- NEWBRIDGE ROAD SCHOOL1.2 mi · 336
Frequently asked questions
About FOREST LAKE SCHOOLHow large is FOREST LAKE SCHOOL?
FOREST LAKE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 390 students in grades PK-06.
Is FOREST LAKE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
FOREST LAKE SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does FOREST LAKE SCHOOL have?
FOREST LAKE SCHOOL employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
How diverse is FOREST LAKE SCHOOL?
FOREST LAKE SCHOOL reports a student body of 79% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees FOREST LAKE SCHOOL?
FOREST LAKE SCHOOL is overseen by WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
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