Enrollment
312
Elementary
DISTRICT 510 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361716001526
LEE ROAD SCHOOL
901 LEE RD, WANTAGH, NY 11793 · (516) 434-7476 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL312 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% 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.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
11.7:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
43 students
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 36% smaller than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 79.0% |
% 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
66.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 LEE ROAD SCHOOL
LEE ROAD SCHOOL's state test result (66.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE ROAD SCHOOL this school | 312 | 13.8% | 66.4% |
| F E BELLOWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAMARONECK | 318 | 14.8% | 76.9% |
| MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST JAMES | 338 | 17.2% | 66.3% |
| PARK AVENUE SCHOOL NORTH MERRICK | 324 | 16.7% | 59.3% |
| EVANS PARK SCHOOL PEARL RIVER | 291 | 13.7% | 74.3% |
| SCHOOL 9E-BOARDMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCEANSIDE | 333 | 10.8% | 66.6% |
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 LEE ROAD SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.4% | #511 of 2,335 | #88 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #674 of 2,342 ▼ 343 | #102 of 172 ▼ 41 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #730 of 2,343 ▼ 209 | #103 of 172 ▼ 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 312 | #1,914 of 2,585 | #157 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #1,143 of 2,338 | #101 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.8% | #1,359 of 2,388 | #132 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.8% | #2,372 of 2,534 | #139 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.0% | #320 of 606 | #35 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
312
+27 (+9%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 265
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 10.2:1
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 | 312 | 26.7 | 11.7:1 | 14% (43) |
| 2023-24 | 297 | 28.9 | 10.3:1 | 11% (33) |
| 2022-23 | 279 | 24.2 | 11.6:1 | 10% (28) |
| 2020-21 | 285 | 28 | 10.2:1 | 6% (17) |
| 2017-18 | 289 | 18.5 | 15.6:1 | 7% (20) |
| 2015-16 | 298 | 19 | 15.7:1 | 11% (34) |
| 2010-11 | 305 | 20 | 15.3:1 | 6% (19) |
| 2000-01 | 360 | 21 | 17.1:1 | 2% (6) |
| 1990-91 | 265 | 14 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LEE ROAD SCHOOL.
About LEE ROAD SCHOOL
LEE ROAD SCHOOL sits in WANTAGH, New York, and is classified as an elementary school. The school counted 312 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5. The school is 30% below the average for elementary schools in New York.
The district, LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 10 schools serving 7,062 students.
The share of White students at LEE ROAD SCHOOL is 70%, a majority. Smaller groups are 18% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 2% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Nassau County is roughly 57% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 47, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at LEE ROAD SCHOOL, there are about 11.7 students; the school has 26.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 43 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 14% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
LEE ROAD SCHOOL earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 67% of New York public elementary schools.
The model predicts 69.9% for a school in New York with LEE ROAD SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. LEE ROAD SCHOOL posts 66.4%.
In Nassau County, the median household earns about $146,202 a year, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Nassau County has 315 public schools with about 200,775 students, including LEE ROAD SCHOOL.
Measured in a straight line, SAW MILL ROAD SCHOOL is about 0.8 miles from LEE ROAD SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 71.4% proficiency; LEE ROAD SCHOOL posts 66.4%.
NCES assigns LEE ROAD SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count rose 9% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Students per teacher increased from 10.2 in 2020-21 to 11.7 in 2024-25.
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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 LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,295 students
- DIVISION AVENUE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,044 students
- JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 899 students
- WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- EAST BROADWAY SCHOOLElementary · 662 students
- ABBEY LANE SCHOOLElementary · 607 students
Other schools in WANTAGH
- WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 826 students
- WANTAGH SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 645 students
- FOREST LAKE SCHOOLElementary · 390 students
- MANDALAY SCHOOLElementary · 321 students
Nearby schools
- SAW MILL ROAD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 700
- GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 542
- PARKWAY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 570
- JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 899
- WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 826
- GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,295
Frequently asked questions
About LEE ROAD SCHOOLHow many students attend LEE ROAD SCHOOL?
LEE ROAD SCHOOL enrolls approximately 312 students in grades KG-05.
Is LEE ROAD SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LEE ROAD SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LEE ROAD SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LEE ROAD SCHOOL is approximately 11.7:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at LEE ROAD SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LEE ROAD SCHOOL are roughly 70% White, 18% Hispanic, 2% Black, 8% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is LEE ROAD SCHOOL in?
LEE ROAD SCHOOL is part of LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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