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LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL
LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in INWOOD, New York, one of the schools within LAWRENCE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 419 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 3.
LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by LAWRENCE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 2,156 students overall.
Demographically, LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 9% Black, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the income-and-resources front, LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of -6.9 points.
Around the school, Nassau County reports that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).
LAWRENCE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER AT #4 SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.8%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL has increased 35%, going from 311 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 64% to 84%.
On the community side, the feed for LAWRENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT #2 SCHOOL typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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