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Enrollment
505
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362928003945
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1270 WALNUT ST, UNIONDALE, NY 11553 · (516) 918-2201 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL505 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
11.4:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
338 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 28 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp 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 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 57.0% |
% 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
53.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (53.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 505 | 66.9% | 53.1% |
| LEO F GIBLYN SCHOOL FREEPORT | 519 | 66.5% | 61.9% |
| PARK AVENUE SCHOOL WESTBURY | 557 | 67.9% | 26.7% |
| NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AMITYVILLE | 525 | 71.0% | N/A |
| GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COPIAGUE | 428 | 66.4% | 54.1% |
| NEW VISIONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FREEPORT | 433 | 69.7% | 72.5% |
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 WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #1,042 of 2,335 | #138 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #829 of 2,342 ▲ 220 | #122 of 172 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,156 of 2,343 ▼ 60 | #137 of 172 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 505 | #802 of 2,585 | #58 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #1,000 of 2,338 | #81 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.9% | #1,396 of 2,388 | #135 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.9% | #1,032 of 2,534 | #14 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #908 of 1,757 | #37 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
505
+20 (+4%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 479
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 10.1:1
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 | 505 | 44.4 | 11.4:1 | 67% (338) |
| 2023-24 | 503 | 42.6 | 11.8:1 | 60% (303) |
| 2022-23 | 452 | 45.9 | 9.8:1 | 69% (311) |
| 2020-21 | 485 | 48 | 10.1:1 | 53% (255) |
| 2017-18 | 587 | 47 | 12.5:1 | 62% (364) |
| 2015-16 | 572 | 47 | 12.2:1 | 73% (420) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 53 | 10.6:1 | 47% (266) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 41 | 13.4:1 | 22% (121) |
| 1990-91 | 479 | 40 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in UNIONDALE, New York, according to federal school records. It serves 505 students in pre-K through 5.
UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It runs 8 schools with 5,995 students.
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 68% Hispanic. Next come 29% Black. That compares with about 19% Hispanic among all Nassau County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 46%.
Its 44.4 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 11.4:1. That ratio is under the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 67%. On average, public schools in Nassau County report 31%.
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded B by allk12, scoring above 59% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 53.1% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 50.4%.
Nassau County census figures show that median household income is about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 315 public schools in Nassau County.
The closest other public school is UNIONDALE HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students grew from 485 to 505 over 4 years. The number of students per teacher rose from 10.1 to 11.4 over 4 years.
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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 UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- UNIONDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,106 students
- CALIFORNIA AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 730 students
- TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 637 students
- LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 623 students
- NORTHERN PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 612 students
- SMITH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 476 students
Other schools in UNIONDALE
- UNIONDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,106 students
- ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNIONDALECombined · 1,607 students
- CALIFORNIA AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 730 students
- TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 637 students
- NORTHERN PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 612 students
- SMITH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 476 students
Other Walnut Street Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Walnut Street Elementary. WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Walnut Street Elementary SchoolTOMS RIVER, NJ · 727 students
- Walnut Street Elementary SchoolDarby, PA · 255 students
Nearby schools
- UNIONDALE HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 2,106
- BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL0.4 mi · 797
- TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 637
- CALIFORNIA AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 730
- SMITH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 476
- WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,141
Frequently asked questions
About WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 505 students in grades PK-05.
Is WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.4:1 (44 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 68% Hispanic, 29% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.