Enrollment
197
Elementary
DISTRICT 295 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LYNBROOK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361791001609
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL
320 WAVERLY AVE, EAST ROCKAWAY, NY 11518 · (516) 887-6589 · Nassau County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL197 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% 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.
- 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
9.2:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
22 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 42 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 30 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 21% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 1% |
This year's 1st grade class (42) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
43%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
69.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 73.0% |
% 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
67.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL's state test result (67.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL this school | 197 | 11.2% | 67.1% |
| JOHN PEARL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOHEMIA | 193 | 14.5% | 66.3% |
| ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY LOCUST VALLEY | 211 | 13.7% | N/A |
| BAYVILLE PRIMARY BAYVILLE | 179 | 14.5% | N/A |
| CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORNWALL ON HUDSON | 239 | 10.9% | 80.7% |
| WILLOW AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORNWALL | 236 | 14.4% | 86.2% |
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 WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.1% | #485 of 2,335 | #84 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #424 of 2,342 ▲ 58 | #72 of 172 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #570 of 2,343 ▼ 49 | #87 of 172 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 197 | #2,398 of 2,585 | #185 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.2% | #2,414 of 2,534 | #146 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.4% | #1,575 of 1,757 | #98 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
197
-24 (-11%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 254
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 5.7:1
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 | 197 | 21.3 | 9.2:1 | 11% (22) |
| 2023-24 | 201 | 21.7 | 9.3:1 | 11% (23) |
| 2022-23 | 210 | 21.8 | 9.6:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 221 | 39 | 5.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 204 | 15.7 | 13.0:1 | 8% (16) |
| 2015-16 | 201 | 14 | 14.4:1 | 3% (7) |
| 2010-11 | 210 | 18 | 11.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 284 | 19 | 14.9:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 254 | 20 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL.
About WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school with its address in EAST ROCKAWAY, New York. School enrollment was 197 students in 2024-25, in grades 1 through 5. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 56% smaller than that.
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL is one of the 7 schools that make up LYNBROOK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,725 students in total).
Roughly 74% of students at WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL are White. Other reported shares: 15% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. Nassau County's residents are about 57% White, 17 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 43% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 21.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL was 9.2:1. This ratio sits 3.6 below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 11%. Among public schools in Nassau County, the average eligibility rate is 31%.
allk12 grades WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL a B+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL, the prediction is 70.9% and the result is 67.1%.
Nassau County census figures show that the median household income is $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 315 public schools in Nassau County, enrolling about 200,775 students in all.
The shortest distance from WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.6 miles, to MARION STREET SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 64.0%, lower than WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL's 67.1%.
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment is down 11% from 2020-21, when WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL had 221 students, to 2024-25, when it had 197. Its ratio of students to teachers was 5.7:1 in 2020-21, and 9.2:1 in 2024-25.
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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 LYNBROOK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 846 students
- MARION STREET SCHOOLElementary · 435 students
- LYNBROOK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 414 students
- WEST END SCHOOLElementary · 386 students
- LYNBROOK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 284 students
- KINDERGARTEN CENTERElementary · 163 students
Other schools in EAST ROCKAWAY
- EAST ROCKAWAY JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 557 students
- RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 330 students
- CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 239 students
Nearby schools
- MARION STREET SCHOOL0.6 mi · 435
- RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 330
- LYNBROOK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 414
- CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 239
- HEWLETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 369
- KINDERGARTEN CENTER1.1 mi · 163
Frequently asked questions
About WAVERLY PARK SCHOOLHow large is WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL?
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL enrolls approximately 197 students in grades 01-05.
Is WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades 01-05.
How many teachers does WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL have?
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.2:1.
How diverse is WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL?
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL reports a student body of 74% White, 15% Hispanic, 4% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL public or private?
WAVERLY PARK SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LYNBROOK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.