Enrollment
376
Elementary
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VALLEY STREAM 24 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362946003974
ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL
50 HUNGRY HARBOR RD, VALLEY STREAM, NY 11581 · (516) 434-2861 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL376 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 65% 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.
- BBeats 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
10.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
133 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (62).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 67.0% |
% 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
60.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL
ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL's state test result (60.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL this school | 376 | 35.4% | 60.9% |
| WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL VALLEY STREAM | 303 | 36.0% | 69.9% |
| STEWART MANOR SCHOOL STEWART MANOR | 342 | 30.4% | 73.4% |
| MAY MOORE PRIMARY SCHOOL DEER PARK | 465 | 33.1% | N/A |
| BROOKLYN AVENUE SCHOOL VALLEY STREAM | 357 | 47.6% | 52.3% |
| JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL DEER PARK | 468 | 40.2% | N/A |
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 ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #719 of 2,335 | #107 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #432 of 2,342 ▲ 236 | #76 of 172 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #1,007 of 2,343 ▼ 155 | #128 of 172 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 376 | #1,518 of 2,585 | #129 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #568 of 2,338 | #42 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.0% | #175 of 2,388 | #12 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.4% | #1,828 of 2,534 | #54 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.4% | #1,192 of 1,757 | #61 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
376
-16 (-4%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 333
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 376 | 36.2 | 10.4:1 | 35% (133) |
| 2023-24 | 386 | 34.3 | 11.3:1 | 38% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 369 | 34 | 10.9:1 | 38% (139) |
| 2020-21 | 392 | 36 | 10.9:1 | 42% (166) |
| 2017-18 | 415 | 37 | 11.2:1 | 35% (145) |
| 2015-16 | 407 | 33 | 12.3:1 | 34% (140) |
| 2010-11 | 423 | 41 | 10.3:1 | 24% (100) |
| 2000-01 | 442 | 29 | 15.2:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 333 | 19 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL.
About ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL
A small elementary school in VALLEY STREAM, New York, ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL is part of VALLEY STREAM 24 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Its enrollment is 376 students, spread over kindergarten through 6.
VALLEY STREAM 24 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL. It runs 3 schools with 1,036 students.
The biggest share of students at ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL, 40%, is Hispanic. The remaining shares are 25% Black, 25% Asian, 7% White, and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Nassau County's population at about 19%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL scores 71%.
ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1, with 36.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 35% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL lands at B+, ahead of 65% of New York public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 60.9%; the prediction is 62.0%.
Nassau County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $146,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 315 public schools in the county, enrolling about 200,775, ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL among them.
The closest school to ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL is VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL, located about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL ranks 7th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 392 to 376, a 4% decrease.
The allk12 page for ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 VALLEY STREAM 24 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BROOKLYN AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 357 students
- WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOLElementary · 303 students
Other schools in VALLEY STREAM
- VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,229 students
- VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,121 students
- VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 937 students
- SHAW AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 740 students
- WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 608 students
- HOWELL ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 599 students
Nearby schools
- VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,229
- FOREST ROAD SCHOOL0.3 mi · 332
- OGDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 295
- BROOKLYN AVENUE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 357
- WOODMERE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 644
- CLEARSTREAM AVENUE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 385
Frequently asked questions
About ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOLHow many students attend ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL?
ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL enrolls approximately 376 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL serve?
ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.4:1 students per teacher at ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL?
At ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 7% White, 40% Hispanic, 25% Black, 25% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL?
ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL is overseen by VALLEY STREAM 24 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.