Enrollment
286
Elementary
DISTRICT 302 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362478003434
WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL
379 WILLOW ST, SOUTH HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550 · (516) 255-8916 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL286 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% 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
10.7:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
64 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 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
59%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
WILLIAM S COVERT 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
81.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
86.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 86.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 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
73.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL
WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL's state test result (73.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL this school | 286 | 22.4% | 73.9% |
| EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LONG BEACH | 271 | 27.3% | 57.7% |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOOL OYSTER BAY | 308 | 23.7% | N/A |
| BEDFORD HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BEDFORD HILLS | 309 | 24.6% | 71.3% |
| VASSAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 294 | 27.2% | N/A |
| SOUTH BAY SCHOOL WEST BABYLON | 288 | 25.7% | 60.5% |
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 WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #285 of 2,335 | #57 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #220 of 2,342 ▲ 267 | #43 of 172 ▲ 41 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #238 of 2,343 ▲ 45 | #38 of 172 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 286 | #2,071 of 2,585 | #168 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #667 of 2,338 | #55 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.6% | #771 of 2,388 | #76 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.4% | #2,167 of 2,534 | #92 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #1,623 of 1,757 | #102 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
286
-2 (-1%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 254
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 286 | 26.9 | 10.7:1 | 22% (64) |
| 2023-24 | 283 | 30.3 | 9.3:1 | 23% (65) |
| 2022-23 | 279 | 32.6 | 8.6:1 | 19% (53) |
| 2020-21 | 288 | 26 | 11.1:1 | 16% (46) |
| 2017-18 | 294 | 24 | 12.3:1 | 14% (41) |
| 2015-16 | 295 | 24 | 12.3:1 | 12% (36) |
| 2010-11 | 316 | 26 | 12.2:1 | 10% (31) |
| 2000-01 | 288 | 19 | 15.2:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 254 | 16 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL.
About WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL
WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL is a small elementary school located in SOUTH HEMPSTEAD, New York. The latest federal count shows 286 students in kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 35% smaller than average.
ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL. It runs 7 schools with 3,276 students.
By race and ethnicity, WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL is 57% White. Other reported shares: 28% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 6% multiracial. The White share in Nassau County as a whole is similar, at about 57%. By the diversity index, WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL comes in at 59%.
At WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL, 26.9 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 10.7:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Roughly 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The 31% average for public schools in Nassau County is 9 points higher.
allk12 grades WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL an A-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL is 66.8%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 73.9%.
In Nassau County (population about 1,389,591), median household income is about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County, which together enroll about 200,775 students.
The closest public school to WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL is LENOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles of WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL is 3rd of 9 on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (288) to 2024-25 (286).
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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 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
- WATSON SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 149 students
Nearby schools
- LENOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 261
- GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 306
- WILSON SCHOOL0.8 mi · 387
- JOSEPH MCNEIL SCHOOL0.9 mi · 359
- HEWITT SCHOOL0.9 mi · 465
- LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 623
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOLHow large is WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL?
WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL enrolls approximately 286 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL serve?
WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL is approximately 10.7:1 (27 FTE teachers).
How diverse is WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL?
WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL reports a student body of 57% White, 28% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL?
WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL is overseen by ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
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