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Enrollment
460
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362856003839
ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
157 ROBBINS LN, SYOSSET, NY 11791 · (516) 364-5804 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL460 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% 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.
- 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
9.2:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
107 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
89.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp 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 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.0% | 89.0% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 88.0% |
% 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
81.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (81.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 460 | 23.3% | 81.3% |
| SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYOSSET | 433 | 19.6% | 85.2% |
| CENTER STREET SCHOOL WILLISTON PARK | 482 | 25.9% | 82.3% |
| CANTIAGUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JERICHO | 436 | 18.1% | 81.2% |
| SEARINGTOWN SCHOOL ALBERTSON | 549 | 24.6% | 82.2% |
| DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL NEW HYDE PARK | 599 | 21.0% | 85.3% |
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 ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #148 of 2,335 | #23 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #160 of 2,342 ▼ 11 | #26 of 172 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #360 of 2,343 ▼ 197 | #59 of 172 ▼ 41 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 460 | #1,027 of 2,585 | #79 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.2:1 | #217 of 2,338 | #15 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.3% | #1,379 of 2,388 | #133 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.3% | #2,144 of 2,534 | #87 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.7% | #581 of 606 | #69 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
460
+12 (+3%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 402
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 460 | 49.9 | 9.2:1 | 23% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 469 | 41.2 | 11.4:1 | 18% (86) |
| 2022-23 | 500 | 46.1 | 10.8:1 | 17% (83) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 40 | 11.2:1 | 10% (44) |
| 2017-18 | 457 | 36.6 | 12.5:1 | 5% (22) |
| 2015-16 | 445 | 36 | 12.4:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2010-11 | 494 | 39 | 12.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 509 | 37 | 13.8:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 402 | 27 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in SYOSSET, New York, administered by SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 460 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district with 6,980 students across 10 schools.
At 69%, Asian students outnumber all other groups at ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. After that, the student body is 23% White, 4% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Among all residents of Nassau County, the Asian share is about 12%. ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 46%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 49.9 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 9.2:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. Roughly 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded A by allk12, scoring above 92% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 66.4%. It scores 81.3%, 14.9 points above that figure.
Nassau County census figures show that median household income is about $146,202, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. A total of 315 public schools operate in Nassau County, serving about 200,775 students.
The shortest distance from ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to GEORGE A JACKSON SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 448 to 460. Federal data show the ratio falling from 11.2:1 to 9.2:1.
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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 SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 951 students
- SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 450 students
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
- BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 416 students
Other schools in SYOSSET
- SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 951 students
- SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- PS 256Combined · 543 students
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 450 students
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
Nearby schools
- GEORGE A JACKSON SCHOOL0.7 mi · 432
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 433
- JERICHO MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 825
- JERICHO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,260
- WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 277
- JEFFREY RATNER-ROBERT SEAMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 278
Frequently asked questions
About ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 460 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.2:1 students per teacher at ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 23% White, 4% Hispanic, 0% Black, 69% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.