GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL

Located at 610 GARDINERS AVE, in LEVITTOWN, New York, GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary campus that caters to 542 students (grades K through 5), operated by LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 22% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 10 schools in LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (7,062 students total), GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Nassau County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 57.3%, a residual of -9.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Nassau County shows median household income runs about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 542 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

On this page, members of the GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.