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If you could change one rule at WHEATLEY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
689
High
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361005000781
WHEATLEY SCHOOL
11 BACON RD, OLD WESTBURY, NY 11568 · (516) 333-7804 · Nassau County
GRADES 08–12HIGH41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
4%
30 students
DISTRICT 6% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 8 | 142 | 21% |
| Grade 9 | 130 | 19% |
| Grade 10 | 123 | 18% |
| Grade 11 | 152 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 134 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 1% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within EAST WILLISTON 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
87.1%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.5pp since 2023
Math
93.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.1% | 93.1% |
| 2023-24 | 85.6% | 92.1% |
% 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
80.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 WHEATLEY SCHOOL
WHEATLEY SCHOOL's state test result (80.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHEATLEY SCHOOL this school | 689 | 4.4% | 80.9% |
| EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SCARSDALE | 915 | 0.5% | 86.8% |
| MANHASSET SECONDARY SCHOOL MANHASSET | 1,031 | 9.9% | 87.8% |
| WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOL EAST AMHERST | 940 | 15.9% | 92.8% |
| ROSLYN HIGH SCHOOL ROSLYN HEIGHTS | 1,086 | 16.5% | 86.8% |
| PLAINVIEW-OLD BETHPAGE/JFK HIGH SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 1,720 | 15.9% | 83.0% |
Matched among New York high 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 WHEATLEY SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.9% | #169 of 1,135 | #25 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.1% | #25 of 1,109 ▲ 49 | #7 of 57 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #255 of 1,135 ▲ 109 | #34 of 56 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #362 of 1,216 | #50 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #132 of 1,058 | #7 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #247 of 1,070 | #20 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 4.4% | #1,157 of 1,167 | #56 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #569 of 743 | #19 of 34 |
Ranked against other public high 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
689
-14 (-2%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 491
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 9.0:1
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 | 689 | 77.6 | 8.9:1 | 4% (30) |
| 2023-24 | 686 | 82.5 | 8.3:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 666 | 77.2 | 8.6:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 703 | 78 | 9.0:1 | 9% (63) |
| 2017-18 | 733 | 66 | 11.1:1 | 5% (40) |
| 2015-16 | 723 | 62 | 11.7:1 | 6% (44) |
| 2010-11 | 788 | 70 | 11.3:1 | 3% (23) |
| 2000-01 | 651 | 66 | 9.9:1 | 1% (4) |
| 1990-91 | 491 | 59 | 8.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WHEATLEY SCHOOL.
About WHEATLEY SCHOOL
WHEATLEY SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school in EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, located in OLD WESTBURY, New York. A federal count lists 689 students at the school, in grades 8 through 12.
Enrollment across the 3 schools in EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 1,571 students.
At 51%, White students outnumber all other groups at WHEATLEY SCHOOL combined. It is also 36% Asian, 7% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. By the diversity index, WHEATLEY SCHOOL comes in at 61%.
The teaching staff at WHEATLEY SCHOOL is 77.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 8.9:1. That ratio is under the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 4%. On average, public schools in Nassau County report 31%.
WHEATLEY SCHOOL is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 74% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
WHEATLEY SCHOOL is 7.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (80.9% versus 73.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
Nassau County has about 1,389,591 residents, and median household income is about $146,202, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Federal data list 315 public schools in Nassau County, with a combined enrollment of about 200,775.
The school nearest to WHEATLEY SCHOOL is CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.7 miles. Within five miles of WHEATLEY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, WHEATLEY SCHOOL places 3rd out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 703 to 689.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTH SIDE SCHOOLElementary · 510 students
- WILLETS ROAD SCHOOLMiddle · 372 students
Other Wheatley schools
One other US public school is named Wheatley. WHEATLEY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Wheatley SchoolPortland, OR · 44 students
Nearby schools
- CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 617
- NORTH SIDE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 510
- RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 407
- CHERRY LANE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 283
- WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL0.9 mi · 372
- DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 513
Frequently asked questions
About WHEATLEY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WHEATLEY SCHOOL?
WHEATLEY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 689 students in grades 08-12.
Is WHEATLEY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WHEATLEY SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 08-12.
How many students per teacher at WHEATLEY SCHOOL?
Approximately 8.9:1 students per teacher at WHEATLEY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at WHEATLEY SCHOOL?
At WHEATLEY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 51% White, 7% Hispanic, 1% Black, 36% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is WHEATLEY SCHOOL public or private?
WHEATLEY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by EAST WILLISTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.