WHEATLEY SCHOOL

WHEATLEY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized high school in OLD WESTBURY, New York, operated by EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 689 students spanning grades 8 through 12.

Within EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,571 students, WHEATLEY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WHEATLEY SCHOOL lists that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 36% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 4% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WHEATLEY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.4%, the actual is 80.9%, a residual of +7.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Nassau County) records that median household earnings sit near $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which WHEATLEY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WHEATLEY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 69.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WHEATLEY SCHOOL has decreased 6%, going from 733 students in 2018 to 689 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 68% to 51%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for WHEATLEY SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.