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What's something NOKOMIS SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
496
Elementary
DISTRICT 490 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362535003505
NOKOMIS SCHOOL
151 HOLBROOK RD, HOLBROOK, NY 11741 · (631) 471-1840 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL496 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% 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
11.3:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
176 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 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 122 | 25% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
58%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
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
48.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 38.0% |
% 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
39.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.3pp
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 NOKOMIS SCHOOL
NOKOMIS SCHOOL's state test result (39.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOKOMIS SCHOOL this school | 496 | 35.5% | 39.6% |
| CAYUGA SCHOOL LAKE GROVE | 539 | 33.4% | 50.8% |
| FRANCIS X HEGARTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ISLAND PARK | 451 | 33.9% | 48.2% |
| LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL FARMINGVILLE | 561 | 35.3% | 40.2% |
| TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WASHINGTONVILLE | 522 | 38.7% | 46.6% |
| DANIEL STREET SCHOOL LINDENHURST | 495 | 42.0% | 43.9% |
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 NOKOMIS SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #1,643 of 2,335 | #114 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,547 of 2,342 ▲ 220 | #109 of 169 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,933 of 2,343 ▼ 63 | #141 of 169 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 496 | #851 of 2,585 | #80 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #991 of 2,338 | #88 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.4% | #781 of 2,388 | #71 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.5% | #1,824 of 2,534 | #91 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.5% | #1,189 of 1,757 | #77 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
496
+9 (+2%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 611
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 496 | 43.8 | 11.3:1 | 35% (176) |
| 2023-24 | 461 | 40.2 | 11.5:1 | 30% (140) |
| 2022-23 | 527 | 45.3 | 11.6:1 | 31% (164) |
| 2020-21 | 487 | 38 | 12.8:1 | 23% (114) |
| 2017-18 | 548 | 42 | 13.1:1 | 20% (111) |
| 2015-16 | 458 | 27 | 17.0:1 | 24% (110) |
| 2010-11 | 498 | 37 | 13.5:1 | 16% (79) |
| 2000-01 | 735 | 48 | 15.3:1 | 15% (107) |
| 1990-91 | 611 | 47 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NOKOMIS SCHOOL.
About NOKOMIS SCHOOL
HOLBROOK, New York, is home to NOKOMIS SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. Its enrollment is 496 students, spread over kindergarten through 5.
NOKOMIS SCHOOL belongs to SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 15 schools and 11,556 students.
The largest group at NOKOMIS SCHOOL is White students, at 56%. Other students are 31% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County residents are about 66% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 58%.
NOKOMIS SCHOOL has 43.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 11.3:1. The school's 11.3:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 35%.
On the allk12 Grade, NOKOMIS SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 18% of New York public elementary schools.
NOKOMIS SCHOOL is 22.3 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in New York.
The county, Suffolk County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $130,686 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting NOKOMIS SCHOOL, Suffolk County has 343 public schools.
About 0.8 miles separate NOKOMIS SCHOOL from the closest public school, HIAWATHA SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 51.2% proficiency; NOKOMIS SCHOOL posts 39.6%.
Federal data place NOKOMIS SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 487 in 2020-21, 496 in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 11.3 students per teacher, compared with 12.8 in 2020-21.
On allk12, people connected to NOKOMIS SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 561 students
Other schools in HOLBROOK
- SENECA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 928 students
- GRUNDY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 452 students
- TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 421 students
- MERRIMAC SCHOOLElementary · 358 students
Other Nokomis schools
One other US public school is named Nokomis. NOKOMIS SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Nokomis SchoolMedford Lakes, NJ · 126 students
Nearby schools
- HIAWATHA SCHOOL0.8 mi · 541
- SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 893
- CHIPPEWA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 543
- SAMOSET MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 847
- SENECA MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 928
- HOLBROOK ROAD SCHOOL1.5 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About NOKOMIS SCHOOLHow many students attend NOKOMIS SCHOOL?
NOKOMIS SCHOOL enrolls approximately 496 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does NOKOMIS SCHOOL serve?
NOKOMIS SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does NOKOMIS SCHOOL have?
NOKOMIS SCHOOL employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the student diversity at NOKOMIS SCHOOL?
Student demographics at NOKOMIS SCHOOL are roughly 56% White, 31% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is NOKOMIS SCHOOL public or private?
NOKOMIS SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.