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Enrollment
387
Elementary
DISTRICT 302 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362478003433
WILSON SCHOOL
25 BUCKINGHAM RD, ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY 11570 · (516) 255-8910 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL387 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% 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.
- 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
23 students
DISTRICT 15% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
40%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
WILSON 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% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
77.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp 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 77 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 | 81.0% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 72.0% |
% 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
73.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% 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 WILSON SCHOOL
WILSON SCHOOL's state test result (73.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON SCHOOL this school | 387 | 5.9% | 73.4% |
| FOREST LAKE SCHOOL WANTAGH | 390 | 6.7% | 65.5% |
| FIFTH AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST NORTHPORT | 377 | 7.2% | 63.4% |
| MILLER AVENUE SCHOOL SHOREHAM | 408 | 4.9% | N/A |
| FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTHPORT | 381 | 8.7% | 72.5% |
| KATONAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KATONAH | 405 | 8.6% | 78.5% |
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 WILSON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #297 of 2,335 | #59 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #462 of 2,342 ▲ 57 | #78 of 172 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #237 of 2,343 ▼ 2 | #37 of 172 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 387 | #1,439 of 2,585 | #120 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #755 of 2,338 | #66 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.6% | #1,613 of 2,388 | #152 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 5.9% | #2,479 of 2,534 | #175 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.6% | #1,304 of 1,757 | #72 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
387
-49 (-11%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 330
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 387 | 35.7 | 10.8:1 | 6% (23) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 36.3 | 10.8:1 | 7% (28) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 38.9 | 10.6:1 | 8% (33) |
| 2020-21 | 436 | 36 | 12.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 419 | 32 | 13.1:1 | 5% (21) |
| 2015-16 | 382 | 29 | 13.2:1 | 5% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 392 | 30 | 13.1:1 | 5% (21) |
| 2000-01 | 414 | 34 | 12.2:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 330 | 19 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILSON SCHOOL.
About WILSON SCHOOL
WILSON SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in ROCKVILLE CENTRE, New York. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 387 students.
ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT serves 3,276 students across 7 schools.
Of every 100 students at WILSON SCHOOL, about 76 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 57%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, WILSON SCHOOL scores 40%.
Teacher count: 35.7 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.8:1. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is 2.0 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 6%. The average for public schools in Nassau County is 31%.
On the allk12 Grade, WILSON SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 78% of New York public elementary schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 72.8%. WILSON SCHOOL scores 73.4%.
In the wider Nassau County area, median household income comes to about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Nassau County's 315 public schools enroll about 200,775 students and include WILSON SCHOOL.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL, is the closest to WILSON SCHOOL. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, WILSON SCHOOL is 5th of 9 on proficiency.
The NCES locale for WILSON SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decrease of 49 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.1:1 to 10.8:1 over the same years.
People who know WILSON SCHOOL can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
- WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOLElementary · 286 students
- WATSON SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 149 students
Other schools in ROCKVILLE CENTRE
- SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 959 students
- SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 806 students
- HEWITT SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
- WATSON SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 149 students
Other Wilson schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Wilson. WILSON SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Wilson SchoolPAYSON, UT · 405 students
- Wilson SchoolLODI, NJ · 382 students
- Wilson SchoolLOGAN, UT · 340 students
- Wilson SchoolWILSON, TX · 133 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 959
- LENOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 261
- PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 429
- HEWITT SCHOOL0.8 mi · 465
- WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL0.8 mi · 286
- BALDWIN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,470
Frequently asked questions
About WILSON SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WILSON SCHOOL?
WILSON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 387 students in grades KG-05.
Is WILSON SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WILSON SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILSON SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILSON SCHOOL is approximately 10.8:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at WILSON SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WILSON SCHOOL are roughly 76% White, 13% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is WILSON SCHOOL in?
WILSON SCHOOL is part of ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.