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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at JOHN H WEST SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
473
Elementary
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362319003246
JOHN H WEST SCHOOL
499 BOUNDARY AVE, BETHPAGE, NY 11714 · (516) 992-7500 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL473 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
11.0:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
85 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
60%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
60.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
61.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 61.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 50.0% |
% 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
55.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 JOHN H WEST SCHOOL
JOHN H WEST SCHOOL's state test result (55.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN H WEST SCHOOL this school | 473 | 18.0% | 55.3% |
| JOHN G DINKELMEYER SCHOOL NORTH BELLMORE | 440 | 18.0% | 67.6% |
| JOHN STREET SCHOOL FRANKLIN SQUARE | 483 | 19.7% | 68.9% |
| GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL LEVITTOWN | 542 | 22.1% | 57.3% |
| ARROWHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST SETAUKET | 562 | 19.8% | 55.0% |
| SAWMILL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL COMMACK | 550 | 20.9% | 56.7% |
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 JOHN H WEST SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.3% | #946 of 2,335 | #133 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #1,045 of 2,342 ▲ 255 | #141 of 172 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #947 of 2,343 ▼ 216 | #122 of 172 ▼ 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 473 | #951 of 2,585 | #69 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #853 of 2,338 | #75 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.3% | #696 of 2,388 | #68 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.0% | #2,279 of 2,534 | #119 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.5% | #305 of 606 | #32 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
473
+19 (+4%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 439
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 473 | 42.9 | 11.0:1 | 18% (85) |
| 2023-24 | 505 | 41.6 | 12.2:1 | 16% (80) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | 38.7 | 12.4:1 | 12% (56) |
| 2020-21 | 454 | 41 | 11.1:1 | 13% (57) |
| 2017-18 | 436 | 38.4 | 11.3:1 | 13% (55) |
| 2015-16 | 455 | 35 | 13.0:1 | 13% (59) |
| 2010-11 | 526 | 41 | 12.8:1 | 11% (59) |
| 2000-01 | 498 | 31 | 16.1:1 | 11% (57) |
| 1990-91 | 439 | 26 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN H WEST SCHOOL.
About JOHN H WEST SCHOOL
JOHN H WEST SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school found in BETHPAGE, New York. It enrolled 473 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 5 schools and 2,959 students, including JOHN H WEST SCHOOL.
JOHN H WEST SCHOOL's enrollment is 57% White. Other groups make up 21% Hispanic, 16% Asian, and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 57% White, within a few points of the school. JOHN H WEST SCHOOL has a diversity index of 60%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
JOHN H WEST SCHOOL employs 42.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.0:1. That ratio is under the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 18% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, JOHN H WEST SCHOOL receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with JOHN H WEST SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 68.4%. JOHN H WEST SCHOOL scores 55.3%, 13.1 points below that line.
Nassau County has these Census figures: median household income is about $146,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. JOHN H WEST SCHOOL is among the 315 public schools in Nassau County.
The closest other public school is ISLAND TREES HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. JOHN H WEST SCHOOL's average proficiency of 55.3% compares with 65.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
In the federal locale system, JOHN H WEST 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.
Enrollment was 454 in 2020-21 and 473 in 2024-25, a rise of 19 students.
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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 PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PLAINEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 856 students
- PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 661 students
- CHARLES E SCHWARTING SCHOOLElementary · 524 students
- EASTPLAIN SCHOOLElementary · 445 students
Other schools in BETHPAGE
- BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 995 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 759 students
- PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 661 students
- CENTRAL BOULEVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
- CHARLES CAMPAGNE SCHOOLElementary · 354 students
Nearby schools
- ISLAND TREES HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 701
- PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 661
- EASTPLAIN SCHOOL0.7 mi · 445
- ISLAND TREES MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 725
- EAST BROADWAY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 662
- CENTRAL BOULEVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 491
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN H WEST SCHOOLHow large is JOHN H WEST SCHOOL?
JOHN H WEST SCHOOL enrolls approximately 473 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does JOHN H WEST SCHOOL serve?
JOHN H WEST SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at JOHN H WEST SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.0:1 students per teacher at JOHN H WEST SCHOOL.
How diverse is JOHN H WEST SCHOOL?
JOHN H WEST SCHOOL reports a student body of 57% White, 21% Hispanic, 1% Black, 16% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees JOHN H WEST SCHOOL?
JOHN H WEST SCHOOL is overseen by PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
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