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What's the most underrated thing about GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
386
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362637003612
GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
60 CODY AVE, GLEN HEAD, NY 11545 · (516) 277-7601 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL386 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 94% 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.
- ABeats 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
10.0:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
36 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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 NORTH SHORE CENTRAL 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
84.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
96.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.0% | 96.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 91.0% |
% 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
86.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (86.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 386 | 9.3% | 86.3% |
| DOUGLAS G GRAFFLIN SCHOOL CHAPPAQUA | 415 | 5.5% | 83.6% |
| PS 290 MANHATTAN NEW SCHOOL NEW YORK | 444 | 12.8% | 88.4% |
| BIRCHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 376 | 15.4% | 71.8% |
| NORTH RIDGE SCHOOL COMMACK | 335 | 9.3% | N/A |
| WESTORCHARD SCHOOL CHAPPAQUA | 441 | 2.9% | 88.8% |
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 GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.3% | #75 of 2,335 | #5 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 96.0% | #61 of 2,342 ▲ 40 | #3 of 172 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #173 of 2,343 ▼ 64 | #22 of 172 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 386 | #1,442 of 2,585 | #122 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #438 of 2,338 | #28 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.9% | #1,284 of 2,388 | #127 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.3% | #2,436 of 2,534 | #154 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.7% | #982 of 1,757 | #43 of 116 |
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
386
-45 (-10%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 322
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 9.0:1
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 | 386 | 38.6 | 10.0:1 | 9% (36) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 40.6 | 10.0:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 427 | 39 | 10.9:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 431 | 48 | 9.0:1 | 8% (34) |
| 2017-18 | 442 | 38.5 | 11.5:1 | 8% (36) |
| 2015-16 | 402 | 37 | 10.9:1 | 3% (14) |
| 2010-11 | 398 | 40 | 9.9:1 | 4% (16) |
| 2000-01 | 487 | 37 | 13.2:1 | 2% (10) |
| 1990-91 | 322 | 24 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school located in GLEN HEAD, New York, in Nassau County. The school serves 386 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits within NORTH SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 5 schools and 2,544 students.
A majority of students at GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 69%, are White. The remaining shares are 16% Asian, 10% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school's share is higher. By the diversity index, GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 49%.
Federal staffing data show 38.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and a ratio of 10.0:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 9% of enrollment. That is 22 points below the 31% average for public schools in Nassau County.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 86.3%, compared with a predicted 71.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census Bureau estimates for Nassau County show that median household income is about $146,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. A total of 315 public schools operate in Nassau County, serving about 200,775 students.
NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is located about 0.5 miles from GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4th of 9 on proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The number of students dropped from 431 to 386 over 4 years. The number of students per teacher rose from 9.0 to 10.0 over 4 years.
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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 NORTH SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTH SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 776 students
- NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 642 students
- GLEN HEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 379 students
- SEA CLIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 361 students
Other schools in GLEN HEAD
- NORTH SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 776 students
- NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 642 students
- GLEN HEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 379 students
Nearby schools
- NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 642
- GLEN HEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 379
- NORTH SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 776
- SEA CLIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 361
- HARBOR HILL SCHOOL1.6 mi · 582
- SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 435
Frequently asked questions
About GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 386 students in grades PK-05.
Is GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 69% White, 10% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GLENWOOD LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by NORTH SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
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