Enrollment
353
Elementary
DISTRICT 574 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361098000880
NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
55 POWELL PL, FARMINGDALE, NY 11735 · (516) 434-5610 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL353 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
11.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
65 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 36% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
69.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 69.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 64.0% |
% 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
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (60.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 353 | 18.4% | 60.0% |
| MARTIN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLMORE | 328 | 17.4% | 65.1% |
| HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ELWOOD | 410 | 20.0% | N/A |
| NOXON ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 348 | 21.3% | 58.8% |
| PORT JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON | 370 | 18.1% | 59.7% |
| FOREST BROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SMITHTOWN | 342 | 21.6% | 62.9% |
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 NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #744 of 2,335 | #111 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #741 of 2,342 ▲ 23 | #109 of 172 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,143 of 2,343 ▼ 137 | #136 of 172 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 353 | #1,649 of 2,585 | #140 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #1,083 of 2,338 | #90 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.9% | #955 of 2,388 | #96 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.4% | #2,270 of 2,534 | #116 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.2% | #465 of 1,757 | #11 of 116 |
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
353
-80 (-18%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 510
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 353 | 30.6 | 11.5:1 | 18% (65) |
| 2023-24 | 385 | 36.6 | 10.5:1 | 25% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 381 | 33.5 | 11.4:1 | 22% (83) |
| 2020-21 | 433 | 35 | 12.4:1 | 8% (34) |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 40 | 11.7:1 | 21% (97) |
| 2015-16 | 459 | 38 | 12.1:1 | 25% (117) |
| 2010-11 | 506 | 45 | 11.2:1 | 22% (113) |
| 2000-01 | 612 | 46 | 13.3:1 | 16% (96) |
| 1990-91 | 510 | 33 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the name of a small elementary school in FARMINGDALE, New York. The school counted 353 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5. That is 20% below the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belongs to FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 6 schools and 5,180 students.
White students are 62% of those enrolled at NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Next come 22% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% Black, and 4% multiracial. A diversity index of 56% means there is a 56% chance two randomly chosen students at NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 30.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 11.5:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 18%. On average, public schools in Nassau County report 31%.
Among New York public elementary schools, NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 57%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 60.0% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 68.2%.
In Nassau County, the median household earns about $146,202 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Nassau County, 315 public schools serve about 200,775 students.
HOWITT SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 353, compared with 433 in 2020-21.
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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 FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FARMINGDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,704 students
- HOWITT SCHOOLMiddle · 1,180 students
- WOODWARD PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 815 students
- SALTZMAN EAST MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 592 students
- ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 536 students
Other schools in FARMINGDALE
- FARMINGDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,704 students
- HOWITT SCHOOLMiddle · 1,180 students
- WOODWARD PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 815 students
- SALTZMAN EAST MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 592 students
Other Northside Elementary schools
42 other US public schools in 19 states are named Northside Elementary. NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 31st largest of the 43.
- Northside Elementary SchoolCLEVELAND, TX · 1,073 students
- Northside Elementary SchoolClinton, MS · 683 students
- Northside ElementaryPEARL, MS · 665 students
- Northside Elementary SchoolDallas, GA · 626 students
- Northside ElementarySeneca, SC · 616 students
Nearby schools
- HOWITT SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,180
- WOODWARD PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 815
- SALTZMAN EAST MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 592
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 759
- CHARLES CAMPAGNE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 354
- OLD BETHPAGE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 407
Frequently asked questions
About NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 353 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.5:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 62% White, 22% Hispanic, 4% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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