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Enrollment
561
Elementary
DISTRICT 490 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362535003503
LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL
50 LYNWOOD AVE, FARMINGVILLE, NY 11738 · (631) 696-8650 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL561 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
14.5:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
198 students
DISTRICT 33% · 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 | 129 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (129) is 30% larger than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
46.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
45.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 44.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
40.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 62% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL
LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL's state test result (40.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL this school | 561 | 35.3% | 40.2% |
| CAYUGA SCHOOL LAKE GROVE | 539 | 33.4% | 50.8% |
| NOKOMIS SCHOOL HOLBROOK | 496 | 35.5% | 39.6% |
| TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WASHINGTONVILLE | 522 | 38.7% | 46.6% |
| HIAWATHA SCHOOL LAKE RONKONKOMA | 541 | 38.8% | 40.3% |
| PATRICIA A DICHIARO SCHOOL YONKERS | 536 | 31.7% | 74.8% |
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 LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #1,613 of 2,335 | #110 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,655 of 2,342 ▼ 111 | #120 of 169 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,526 of 2,343 ▲ 291 | #102 of 169 ▲ 27 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 561 | #597 of 2,585 | #51 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #1,955 of 2,338 | #173 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.0% | #607 of 2,388 | #52 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.3% | #1,831 of 2,534 | #92 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #1,398 of 1,757 | #96 of 137 |
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
561
-1 (0%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 554
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 561 | 38.7 | 14.5:1 | 35% (198) |
| 2023-24 | 568 | 46.8 | 12.1:1 | 45% (253) |
| 2022-23 | 572 | 42.1 | 13.6:1 | 37% (213) |
| 2020-21 | 562 | 43 | 13.1:1 | 28% (160) |
| 2017-18 | 598 | 42 | 14.2:1 | 35% (208) |
| 2015-16 | 474 | 32 | 14.8:1 | 33% (158) |
| 2010-11 | 488 | 36 | 13.6:1 | 11% (53) |
| 2000-01 | 631 | 47 | 13.4:1 | 12% (78) |
| 1990-91 | 554 | 38 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL.
About LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL
Families in FARMINGVILLE, New York, are served by LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 561 students. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 27% higher.
LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is in SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district with 11,556 students across 15 schools.
The share of White students at LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is 52%, a majority. It is also 32% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Suffolk County is roughly 66% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 62, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 38.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.5:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has more students per teacher. About 35% of students at LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public elementary schools, LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL outscored 19%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL scores 21.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 40.2% actual versus 62.0% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Suffolk County has 343 public schools with about 222,439 students, including LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL.
LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is about 1.0 miles from WAVERLY AVENUE SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is 7th of 8 on proficiency.
The federal government classifies LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 562 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 561. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.5:1) than in 2020-21 (13.1:1).
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL NORTHHigh · 2,008 students
- SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,984 students
- SENECA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 928 students
- SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 893 students
- SAMOSET MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 847 students
- CHIPPEWA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 543 students
Nearby schools
- WAVERLY AVENUE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 497
- SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL EAST1.2 mi · 1,984
- CHIPPEWA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 543
- SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 893
- EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 680
- TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL?
LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 561 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL serve?
LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is approximately 14.5:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL?
At LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 52% White, 32% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL public or private?
LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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