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What's one thing NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
812
Elementary
DISTRICT 680 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361869005743
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
6 FRANCIS LANDAU PL, SHIRLEY, NY 11967 · (631) 874-1301 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL812 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test 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
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
377 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 121 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 147 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 121 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 145 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 135 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 143 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (143).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
35.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 41.0% |
% 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
36.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 58% 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 NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (36.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 812 | 46.4% | 36.9% |
| WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHIRLEY | 757 | 46.2% | 42.7% |
| MORICHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MORICHES | 861 | 49.1% | 45.6% |
| GARDINER MANOR SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 739 | 44.5% | 34.9% |
| TANGIER SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASTIC BEACH | 770 | 51.9% | 42.4% |
| STONY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STONY POINT | 666 | 49.1% | 45.0% |
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 NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #1,760 of 2,335 | #131 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,992 of 2,342 ▼ 332 | #156 of 169 ▼ 38 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,754 of 2,343 ▼ 222 | #121 of 169 ▼ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 812 | #137 of 2,585 | #9 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #1,953 of 2,338 | #172 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.2% | #596 of 2,388 | #50 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.4% | #1,507 of 2,534 | #51 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.7% | #164 of 606 | #9 of 57 |
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
812
+138 (+20%) vs 2020
+10% since 2010-11, when it was 737
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 812 | 56 | 14.5:1 | 46% (377) |
| 2023-24 | 786 | 53 | 14.8:1 | 52% (407) |
| 2022-23 | 703 | 51.5 | 13.7:1 | 54% (380) |
| 2020-21 | 674 | 46 | 14.7:1 | 50% (334) |
| 2017-18 | 690 | 45 | 15.3:1 | 59% (408) |
| 2015-16 | 740 | 47 | 15.7:1 | 56% (417) |
| 2010-11 | 737 | 51 | 14.4:1 | 40% (292) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the name of a large elementary school in SHIRLEY, New York. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 812 students. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 83% bigger than average.
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district with 9,386 students across 9 schools.
A majority of students at NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 54%, are Hispanic. The next largest groups are 25% White, 11% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 32 points above the 23% share among Suffolk County residents. NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 62%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 56 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 14.5:1. That ratio is over the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 46%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the bottom 10% of schools in New York. Predicted: 57.9%. Actual: 36.9%.
In Suffolk County (population about 1,530,146), median household income is about $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. A total of 343 public schools operate in Suffolk County, serving about 222,439 students.
The next-closest public school is JOHN S HOBART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY 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.
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 674 students in 2020-21 and 812 in 2024-25, a 20% rise.
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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 WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WILLIAM FLOYD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,107 students
- WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,124 students
- WILLIAM PACA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,078 students
- MORICHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 861 students
- JOHN S HOBART ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 796 students
- TANGIER SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 770 students
Other schools in SHIRLEY
- JOHN S HOBART ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 796 students
- WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 757 students
- WILLIAM FLOYD LEARNING CENTERElementary · 81 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN S HOBART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 796
- WILLIAM FLOYD HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 3,107
- WILLIAM PACA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,078
- WILLIAM FLOYD LEARNING CENTER0.4 mi · 81
- WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 757
- TANGIER SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 770
Frequently asked questions
About NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 812 students in grades KG-05.
Is NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.5:1 (56 FTE teachers).
How diverse is NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 25% White, 54% Hispanic, 11% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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