Enrollment
227
Elementary
DISTRICT 196 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361770006652
LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
119 RYEFIELD RD, LOCUST VALLEY, NY 11560 · (516) 277-5300 · Nassau County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL227 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% 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.
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
12.2:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
51 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 60 | 26% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 37% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 36% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
83.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
85.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 80.0% |
% 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
77.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's state test result (77.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL this school | 227 | 22.5% | 77.2% |
| MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 202 | 19.3% | 75.9% |
| TUTTLE AVENUE SCHOOL EASTPORT | 233 | 25.8% | N/A |
| SCHOOL 4 OCEANSIDE | 264 | 18.9% | 71.2% |
| GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENWOOD LAKE | 191 | 24.6% | 79.5% |
| WATSON SCHOOL ROCKVILLE CENTRE | 224 | 15.2% | 77.3% |
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 LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #212 of 2,335 | #42 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #236 of 2,342 ▲ 63 | #45 of 172 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #187 of 2,343 ▲ 59 | #25 of 172 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 227 | #2,299 of 2,585 | #179 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #1,358 of 2,338 | #121 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.3% | #1,315 of 2,388 | #130 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.5% | #2,166 of 2,534 | #91 of 193 |
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
227
-18 (-7%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 227 | 18.6 | 12.2:1 | 22% (51) |
| 2023-24 | 240 | 23.1 | 10.4:1 | 19% (46) |
| 2022-23 | 227 | 22 | 10.3:1 | 19% (42) |
| 2020-21 | 245 | 25 | 9.8:1 | 19% (46) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
About LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in LOCUST VALLEY, New York. The school counted 227 students in 2024-25, covering grades 3 through 5. It has 49% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
Enrollment across the 6 schools in LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 1,794 students.
Federal enrollment data show LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is 68% White. Next come 22% Hispanic and 8% Asian. The county population is about 57% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 48%.
The school lists 18.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. A total of 51 students, or 22%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Nassau County, the average is 31%.
On the allk12 Grade, LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 87% of New York public elementary schools.
LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 77.2%, compared with a predicted 66.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Nassau County, the median household earns about $146,202 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Nassau County has 315 public schools with about 200,775 students, including LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
A public school about 0.1 miles away, ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY, is the closest to LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is 3rd of 6 on proficiency.
The NCES locale for LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE 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 in 2024-25 stood at 227, compared with 245 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 12.2:1, from 9.8:1.
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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 LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 583 students
- LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 427 students
- ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARYElementary · 211 students
- BAYVILLE PRIMARYElementary · 179 students
- BAYVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 167 students
Other schools in LOCUST VALLEY
- LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 583 students
- LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 427 students
- ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARYElementary · 211 students
Nearby schools
- ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY0.1 mi · 211
- LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 583
- LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 427
- BAYVILLE PRIMARY1.8 mi · 179
- GRIBBIN SCHOOL1.9 mi · 334
- BAYVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 167
Frequently asked questions
About LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLHow many students attend LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 227 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serve?
LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL are roughly 68% White, 22% Hispanic, 1% Black, 8% Asian.
What district is LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL in?
LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is part of LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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