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Enrollment
644
Elementary
DISTRICT 561 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361911001729
NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL
21 BABYLON RD, MERRICK, NY 11566 · (516) 992-7231 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL644 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 81% 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.
- B+Beats 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
10.8:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
41 students
DISTRICT 7% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 93 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 5% smaller than its 6th grade class (93).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
76.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
83.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.0% | 83.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 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
75.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL
NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL's state test result (75.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL this school | 644 | 6.4% | 75.8% |
| CHATSWORTH AVENUE SCHOOL LARCHMONT | 652 | 5.5% | 85.4% |
| WANTAGH SCHOOL WANTAGH | 672 | 8.9% | 59.2% |
| BIRCH SCHOOL MERRICK | 588 | 6.1% | 76.2% |
| BIRCH LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASSAPEQUA PARK | 696 | 6.3% | 50.8% |
| MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL LARCHMONT | 689 | 2.0% | 84.4% |
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 NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.8% | #242 of 2,335 | #50 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #281 of 2,342 ▲ 21 | #49 of 172 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #354 of 2,343 ▼ 48 | #58 of 172 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 644 | #367 of 2,585 | #22 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #735 of 2,338 | #64 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.9% | #1,905 of 2,388 | #178 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.4% | #2,473 of 2,534 | #171 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.7% | #140 of 606 | #8 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
644
+25 (+4%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 594
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 644 | 59.7 | 10.8:1 | 6% (41) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 61.2 | 10.4:1 | 8% (49) |
| 2022-23 | 645 | 52 | 12.4:1 | 6% (38) |
| 2020-21 | 619 | 59 | 10.5:1 | 6% (37) |
| 2017-18 | 538 | 49.5 | 10.9:1 | 5% (29) |
| 2015-16 | 525 | 49 | 10.7:1 | 1% (5) |
| 2010-11 | 647 | 54 | 12.0:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 727 | 50 | 14.5:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 594 | 47 | 12.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL.
About NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL
NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in MERRICK, New York. It is open to students in pre-K through 6 and enrolls 644 students. It has 45% more students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL is in MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district with 1,683 students across 3 schools.
At NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL, 84% of students are White. After that, the student body is 9% Hispanic and 5% Asian. Census figures show Nassau County is about 57% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 29%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.8:1. The school has 59.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. The school reported 6% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
On the allk12 Grade, NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 81% of New York public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL is +3.1 points: 75.8% actual, 72.7% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Nassau County show that 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 NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL.
BIRCH SCHOOL is the nearest public school to NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL, about 0.6 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL ranks 4th on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 644, up from 619 in 2020-21.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BIRCH SCHOOLElementary · 588 students
- CHATTERTON SCHOOLElementary · 451 students
Other schools in MERRICK
- SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,219 students
- MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOLHigh · 848 students
- BIRCH SCHOOLElementary · 588 students
- CAMP AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
- OLD MILL ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 461 students
- CHATTERTON SCHOOLElementary · 451 students
Nearby schools
- BIRCH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 588
- SHORE ROAD SCHOOL1.0 mi · 273
- CHATTERTON SCHOOL1.0 mi · 451
- GRAND AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 916
- MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 848
- REINHARD EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER1.3 mi · 550
Frequently asked questions
About NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOLHow many students attend NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL?
NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 644 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL serve?
NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL have?
NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL employs 60 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
How diverse is NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL?
NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL reports a student body of 84% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL?
NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL is overseen by MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.