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Enrollment
740
Elementary
DISTRICT 486 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VALLEY STREAM 30 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362949003979
SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL
99 SHAW AVE, VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580 · (516) 434-3803 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL740 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% 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.
- 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
12.7:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
416 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 | 54 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 118 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 31% smaller than its 6th grade class (118).
Student demographics
72%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
66.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 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
61.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL
SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL's state test result (61.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL this school | 740 | 56.2% | 61.4% |
| CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL ELMONT | 764 | 59.6% | 54.1% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE NEW YORK | 967 | 58.8% | 93.3% |
| PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY BROOKLYN | 918 | 61.1% | 60.3% |
| PS/IS 266 BELLEROSE | 465 | 58.5% | 65.3% |
| DUTCH BROADWAY SCHOOL ELMONT | 715 | 56.9% | 59.1% |
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 SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.4% | #696 of 2,335 | #103 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #830 of 2,342 ▼ 157 | #123 of 172 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #701 of 2,343 ▼ 173 | #101 of 172 ▼ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 740 | #221 of 2,585 | #10 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #1,537 of 2,338 | #134 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.0% | #142 of 2,388 | #8 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.2% | #1,241 of 2,534 | #28 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.1% | #1,600 of 1,757 | #101 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
740
+44 (+6%) vs 2020
+42% since 1990-91, when it was 520
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
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 | 740 | 58.1 | 12.7:1 | 56% (416) |
| 2023-24 | 746 | 59.9 | 12.5:1 | 53% (395) |
| 2022-23 | 736 | 60.6 | 12.2:1 | 48% (350) |
| 2020-21 | 696 | 56 | 12.4:1 | 44% (305) |
| 2017-18 | 764 | 53.8 | 14.2:1 | 47% (356) |
| 2015-16 | 780 | 50 | 15.6:1 | 40% (312) |
| 2010-11 | 683 | 48 | 14.2:1 | 31% (211) |
| 2000-01 | 723 | 47 | 15.4:1 | 17% (124) |
| 1990-91 | 520 | 41 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL.
About SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL
SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL is a public elementary school in VALLEY STREAM, New York. It is open to students in pre-K through 6 and enrolls 740 students. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
The district, VALLEY STREAM 30 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 3 schools serving 1,457 students.
The largest group at SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL is Asian students, at 32%. The school is also 30% Hispanic, 30% Black, and 6% White. That is higher than the 12% Asian share among all Nassau County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 72%.
SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL reported 58.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 12.7:1. The ratio is within a point of the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Roughly 56% of students at SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 72% of New York public elementary schools.
SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL scores 61.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 54.3%.
The school's county is Nassau County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $146,202 a year, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL shares Nassau County with 314 other public schools.
CLEARSTREAM AVENUE SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL is 5th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 6%, from 696 to 740.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL. 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 30 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CLEARSTREAM AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 385 students
- FOREST ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 332 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
- WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 608 students
- HOWELL ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 599 students
- JAMES A DEVER SCHOOLElementary · 437 students
Nearby schools
- CLEARSTREAM AVENUE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 385
- ALDEN TERRACE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 405
- VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 937
- VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,121
- PS 38 ROSEDALE1.0 mi · 223
- FOREST ROAD SCHOOL1.1 mi · 332
Frequently asked questions
About SHAW AVENUE SCHOOLHow large is SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL?
SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 740 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL serve?
SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL is approximately 12.7:1 (58 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL?
At SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 6% White, 30% Hispanic, 30% Black, 32% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL in?
SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL is part of VALLEY STREAM 30 UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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