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What's something VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
379
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362856003844
VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
90 CONVENT RD, SYOSSET, NY 11791 · (516) 364-5817 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL379 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of New York public elementary schools
- A+Test 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
9.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
47 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 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 36% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
58%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
85.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
92.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.0% | 92.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 90.0% |
% 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
84.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (84.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 379 | 12.4% | 84.8% |
| BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 416 | 17.3% | 80.1% |
| PASADENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 455 | 16.7% | 83.7% |
| WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYOSSET | 298 | 16.4% | 88.7% |
| MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL NEW HYDE PARK | 320 | 9.1% | 80.0% |
| PS 77 LOWER LAB SCHOOL NEW YORK | 364 | 9.9% | 98.9% |
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 VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.8% | #102 of 2,335 | #12 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 92.0% | #110 of 2,342 ▲ 2 | #12 of 172 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #150 of 2,343 ▼ 40 | #14 of 172 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 379 | #1,489 of 2,585 | #127 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.5:1 | #303 of 2,338 | #20 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #802 of 2,388 | #80 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.4% | #2,396 of 2,534 | #144 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.0% | #1,474 of 1,757 | #87 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
379
-31 (-8%) vs 2020
+39% since 1990-91, when it was 273
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 379 | 39.8 | 9.5:1 | 12% (47) |
| 2023-24 | 408 | 40 | 10.2:1 | 8% (32) |
| 2022-23 | 415 | 39.2 | 10.6:1 | 10% (41) |
| 2020-21 | 410 | 42 | 9.8:1 | 9% (35) |
| 2017-18 | 399 | 30 | 13.3:1 | 7% (27) |
| 2015-16 | 366 | 29 | 12.6:1 | 6% (23) |
| 2010-11 | 413 | 34 | 12.2:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 409 | 29 | 14.1:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 273 | 17 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in SYOSSET, New York, under SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It covers kindergarten through 5, with a total enrollment of 379 students.
The district, SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 10 schools serving 6,980 students.
VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 55% Asian. Other groups make up 33% White, 7% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 12% of Nassau County residents are Asian. By the diversity index, VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 58%.
Federal staffing data show 39.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and a ratio of 9.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 12% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Nassau County averages 31%, higher than here.
allk12 grades VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In New York, VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 84.8% actual against a predicted 70.4%.
Census estimates describe Nassau County this way: median household income is about $146,202, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 315 public schools in Nassau County, with a combined enrollment of about 200,775.
PS 256 is the closest public school, about 0.4 miles away in a straight line. VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 84.8%, higher than VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 84.8%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 410 in 2020-21 and 379 in 2024-25, an 8% decrease.
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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
- ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 460 students
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 450 students
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 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
- ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 460 students
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 450 students
Other Village Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 7 states are named Village Elementary. VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 9th largest of the 9.
- VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHILTON, NY · 972 students
- Village ElementaryVictorville, CA · 763 students
- Village Elementary SchoolWest Windsor, NJ · 657 students
- VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSUNRISE, FL · 654 students
- Village Elementary SchoolSkillman, NJ · 591 students
Nearby schools
- PS 2560.4 mi · 543
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 450
- SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 2,400
- SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 802
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 951
- WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 298
Frequently asked questions
About VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 379 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 9.5:1 (40 FTE teachers).
How diverse is VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 33% White, 7% Hispanic, 0% Black, 55% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VILLAGE 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.