Enrollment
298
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362856003835
WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
99 NANA PL, SYOSSET, NY 11791 · (516) 364-5829 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL298 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
49 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
55%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
83.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
93.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 83 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 down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 93.0% |
| 2023-24 | 85.0% | 96.0% |
% 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
88.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% 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 WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (88.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 298 | 16.4% | 88.7% |
| VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYOSSET | 379 | 12.4% | 84.8% |
| BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 416 | 17.3% | 80.1% |
| PS 77 LOWER LAB SCHOOL NEW YORK | 364 | 9.9% | 98.9% |
| PASADENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 455 | 16.7% | 83.7% |
| MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL NEW HYDE PARK | 320 | 9.1% | 80.0% |
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 WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.7% | #53 of 2,335 | #3 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #102 of 2,342 ▼ 45 | #9 of 172 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #191 of 2,343 ▼ 133 | #28 of 172 ▼ 27 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 298 | #2,004 of 2,585 | #164 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #112 of 2,338 | #7 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.4% | #988 of 2,388 | #100 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.4% | #2,320 of 2,534 | #131 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #1,065 of 1,757 | #52 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
298
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 213
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 8.9:1
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 | 298 | 35.2 | 8.5:1 | 16% (49) |
| 2023-24 | 301 | 34.4 | 8.8:1 | 15% (44) |
| 2022-23 | 305 | 32.2 | 9.5:1 | 11% (34) |
| 2020-21 | 302 | 34 | 8.9:1 | 7% (20) |
| 2017-18 | 336 | 31 | 10.8:1 | 4% (12) |
| 2015-16 | 316 | 27 | 11.7:1 | 3% (9) |
| 2010-11 | 315 | 32 | 9.8:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 342 | 27 | 12.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 213 | 16 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in SYOSSET, New York. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 298 students. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It has 10 schools and 6,980 students.
Of every 100 students at WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 52 are Asian. The school is also 42% White, 4% Hispanic, and 2% multiracial. The Asian share of the county population is lower, at 12%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 55%.
Staffing at WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 35.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.5:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. On the income side, 16% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 88.7% is 19.8 points above the 69.0% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Nassau County show that the median household earns about $146,202 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Nassau County, 315 public schools serve about 200,775 students.
H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles from WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st in a group of 8 nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, WILLITS ELEMENTARY 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 has been fairly stable: 302 in 2020-21 and 298 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 SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 951 students
- SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 460 students
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 450 students
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
Other schools in SYOSSET
- SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 951 students
- SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- PS 256Combined · 543 students
- ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 460 students
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 450 students
Nearby schools
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 951
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 433
- BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 416
- JUDY JACOBS PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 467
- VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 379
- PS 2561.3 mi · 543
Frequently asked questions
About WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 298 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 8.5:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 42% White, 4% Hispanic, 0% Black, 52% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
WILLITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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