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Enrollment
838
Elementary
DISTRICT 708 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360984000758
MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2201 DEVON ST, EAST MEADOW, NY 11554 · (516) 228-5300 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL838 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% 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.
- ABeats 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
10.7:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
256 students
DISTRICT 28% · 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 | 114 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 127 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 146 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 142 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 136 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 173 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (114) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (173).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
89.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
92.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 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 have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.0% | 92.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 92.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
85.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in New York's top 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 MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (85.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 838 | 30.5% | 85.0% |
| PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN FOREST HILLS | 766 | 25.3% | 81.2% |
| PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY FOREST HILLS | 749 | 22.3% | 94.9% |
| PS/IS 78 LONG ISLAND CITY | 799 | 23.2% | 80.2% |
| PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND ROOSEVELT ISLAND | 689 | 29.5% | 69.3% |
| PARKWAY SCHOOL EAST MEADOW | 570 | 27.7% | 75.2% |
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 MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #97 of 2,335 | #9 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 92.0% | #106 of 2,342 ▼ 18 | #10 of 172 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #96 of 2,343 ▲ 27 | #4 of 172 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 838 | #114 of 2,585 | #3 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #696 of 2,338 | #59 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.4% | #246 of 2,388 | #24 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.5% | #1,960 of 2,534 | #65 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.0% | #157 of 606 | #11 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
838
+82 (+11%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 707
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 838 | 78.2 | 10.7:1 | 31% (256) |
| 2023-24 | 830 | 76.9 | 10.8:1 | 31% (261) |
| 2022-23 | 817 | 71.3 | 11.4:1 | 34% (274) |
| 2020-21 | 756 | 57 | 13.3:1 | 27% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 710 | 50 | 14.2:1 | 27% (189) |
| 2015-16 | 680 | 47 | 14.5:1 | 26% (177) |
| 2010-11 | 659 | 49 | 13.4:1 | 12% (76) |
| 2000-01 | 857 | 56 | 15.3:1 | 7% (63) |
| 1990-91 | 707 | 42 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large elementary school that serves part of EAST MEADOW, New York. It educates 838 students in kindergarten through 5. The school's enrollment is 89% above the 443 average for elementary schools in New York.
EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 9 schools and 7,793 students, MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Asian students are the largest group at MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 40% of enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 29% White, 26% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. Among all residents of Nassau County, the Asian share is about 12%. By the diversity index, MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 69%.
Its 78.2 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 10.7:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 31% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is close to the 31% average for public schools in Nassau County.
The allk12 Grade for MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is A+. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 95% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 21.3 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in New York.
MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Nassau County, where median household income is about $146,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County, which together enroll about 200,775 students.
EAST MEADOW HIGH SCHOOL is the public school closest to MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.6 miles away. MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 85.0% compares with 71.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale data from NCES put MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Federal counts put enrollment at 756 in 2020-21 and 838 in 2024-25, an 11% gain. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.7:1) than in 2020-21 (13.3:1).
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EAST MEADOW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,141 students
- W TRESPER CLARKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 898 students
- BOWLING GREEN SCHOOLElementary · 895 students
- BARNUM WOODS SCHOOLElementary · 797 students
- CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 663 students
Other schools in EAST MEADOW
- EAST MEADOW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,141 students
- BARNUM WOODS SCHOOLElementary · 797 students
- PARKWAY SCHOOLElementary · 570 students
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 442 students
- COUNTY OF NASSAU/CORRECTIONAL CENTERElementary
Nearby schools
- EAST MEADOW HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,549
- WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,141
- BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL1.1 mi · 797
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 442
- WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 505
- UNIONDALE HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 2,106
Frequently asked questions
About MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 838 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 29% White, 26% Hispanic, 3% Black, 40% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.