Enrollment
224
Elementary
DISTRICT 302 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362478003432
WATSON SCHOOL
277 N CENTRE AVE, ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY 11570 · (516) 255-8904 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL224 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% 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.
- 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
9.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
34 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 | 33 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 33 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
WATSON SCHOOL→SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
82.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 78.0% | 72.0% |
% 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
77.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 WATSON SCHOOL
WATSON SCHOOL's state test result (77.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON SCHOOL this school | 224 | 15.2% | 77.3% |
| WILLOW AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORNWALL | 236 | 14.4% | 86.2% |
| ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY LOCUST VALLEY | 211 | 13.7% | N/A |
| JOHN PEARL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOHEMIA | 193 | 14.5% | 66.3% |
| MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 202 | 19.3% | 75.9% |
| LINCOLN AVENUE SCHOOL PEARL RIVER | 190 | 15.8% | 76.6% |
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 WATSON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.3% | #209 of 2,335 | #40 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #430 of 2,342 ▲ 87 | #75 of 172 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #214 of 2,343 ▼ 79 | #32 of 172 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 224 | #2,309 of 2,585 | #180 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.1:1 | #197 of 2,338 | #12 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #827 of 2,388 | #84 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.2% | #2,342 of 2,534 | #136 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.2% | #538 of 1,757 | #14 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
224
-37 (-14%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 253
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
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 | 224 | 24.5 | 9.1:1 | 15% (34) |
| 2023-24 | 229 | 25.9 | 8.9:1 | 15% (35) |
| 2022-23 | 237 | 25.8 | 9.2:1 | 13% (31) |
| 2020-21 | 261 | 24 | 10.9:1 | 17% (44) |
| 2017-18 | 288 | 21.5 | 13.4:1 | 21% (61) |
| 2015-16 | 308 | 21 | 14.7:1 | 19% (59) |
| 2010-11 | 264 | 21 | 12.6:1 | 17% (46) |
| 2000-01 | 220 | 16 | 13.8:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 253 | 14 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WATSON SCHOOL.
About WATSON SCHOOL
WATSON SCHOOL is a small elementary school in New York, located in ROCKVILLE CENTRE. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 224 students in 2024-25. The school is 49% below the average for elementary schools in New York.
WATSON SCHOOL is one school in a 7-school district, ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 3,276 students.
The largest group at WATSON SCHOOL is White students, at 61%. The remaining students are 21% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, and 4% Asian. Nassau County residents are about 57% White, a similar share. The diversity index for WATSON SCHOOL is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 24.5 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 9.1:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. Roughly 15% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Nassau County is 31%.
WATSON SCHOOL earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 85% of New York public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, WATSON SCHOOL is 7.9 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 77.3% actual, 69.4% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
For the population of Nassau County, the median household earns about $146,202 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Across Nassau County, 315 public schools serve about 200,775 students.
WATSON SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. WATSON SCHOOL's average proficiency of 77.3% compares with 66.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
In the federal locale system, WATSON SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell 14% over 4 years, reaching 224 in 2024-25. The ratio was 10.9:1 in 2020-21 and 9.1:1 in 2024-25.
People who know WATSON SCHOOL can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 959 students
- SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 806 students
- HEWITT SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
- WILSON SCHOOLElementary · 387 students
- WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOLElementary · 286 students
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 149 students
Other schools in ROCKVILLE CENTRE
- SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 959 students
- SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 806 students
- HEWITT SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
- WILSON SCHOOLElementary · 387 students
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 149 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 806
- MALVERNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 628
- HOWARD T HERBER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 428
- HEWITT SCHOOL0.9 mi · 465
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 149
- DAVISON AVENUE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 370
Frequently asked questions
About WATSON SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WATSON SCHOOL?
WATSON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 224 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does WATSON SCHOOL serve?
WATSON SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WATSON SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WATSON SCHOOL is approximately 9.1:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at WATSON SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WATSON SCHOOL are roughly 61% White, 21% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is WATSON SCHOOL public or private?
WATSON SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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