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Enrollment
674
Elementary
DISTRICT 789 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361116000886
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL
10 ELIZABETH ST, FLORAL PARK, NY 11001 · (516) 434-2781 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL674 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of New York public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
168 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 51 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 77 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 89 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 13% smaller than its 6th grade class (89).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
82.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
80.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 75.0% |
% 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
75.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% 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 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL's state test result (75.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL this school | 674 | 24.9% | 75.0% |
| PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS FOREST HILLS | 605 | 25.8% | 84.7% |
| BATTERY PARK CITY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 797 | 22.6% | 82.7% |
| PS/IS 78 LONG ISLAND CITY | 799 | 23.2% | 80.2% |
| VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIX HILLS | 708 | 24.9% | 78.0% |
| PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN FOREST HILLS | 766 | 25.3% | 81.2% |
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 LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #262 of 2,335 | #54 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #357 of 2,342 ▲ 72 | #64 of 172 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #209 of 2,343 ▲ 16 | #30 of 172 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 674 | #310 of 2,585 | #16 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #2,018 of 2,338 | #169 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #234 of 2,388 | #20 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.9% | #2,098 of 2,534 | #80 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.1% | #500 of 606 | #58 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
674
+2 (+0%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 662
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 674 | 45.3 | 14.9:1 | 25% (168) |
| 2023-24 | 688 | 46 | 15.0:1 | 24% (166) |
| 2022-23 | 701 | 43.7 | 16.1:1 | 19% (131) |
| 2020-21 | 672 | 47 | 14.3:1 | 18% (119) |
| 2017-18 | 660 | 45.5 | 14.5:1 | 20% (130) |
| 2015-16 | 607 | 33 | 18.4:1 | 18% (107) |
| 2010-11 | 681 | 40 | 17.0:1 | 8% (54) |
| 2000-01 | 773 | 38 | 20.3:1 | 6% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 662 | 35 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL.
About JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL is a large elementary school located in FLORAL PARK, New York. Total enrollment is 674 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 6. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 52% higher.
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 1,578 students in 2 schools, and JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL is one of those schools.
White students make up 42% of enrollment at JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL, the largest share of any group. Next come 27% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. That compares with about 57% White among all Nassau County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 70%.
Its staff includes 45.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.9 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 25%.
Among New York public elementary schools, JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL outscored 86%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL is 65.8%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 75.0%.
For Nassau County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $146,202 a year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Counting JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL, Nassau County has 315 public schools.
PS 191 MAYFLOWER, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL places 1st of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The NCES locale for JOHN LEWIS CHILDS 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.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 672 in 2020-21, 674 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on special education services, counseling, and support programs here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
Other schools in FLORAL PARK
- SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,572 students
- FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,308 students
- FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
- IRWIN ALTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL 172Middle · 799 students
- JAMES J AMBROSE SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 659 students
- PS 993Combined · 636 students
Nearby schools
- PS 191 MAYFLOWER0.6 mi · 327
- PS 9930.6 mi · 636
- PS 133 THE BELLEROSE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE0.8 mi · 596
- FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,308
- SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,572
- STEWART MANOR SCHOOL1.0 mi · 342
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL?
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL enrolls approximately 674 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL serve?
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL is approximately 14.9:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL?
Student demographics at JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL are roughly 42% White, 21% Hispanic, 3% Black, 27% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL in?
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL is part of FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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