Enrollment
312
Elementary
DISTRICT 431 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360441000191
WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL
580 WINTHROP AVE, BELLMORE, NY 11710 · (516) 679-2920 · Nassau County
GRADES 03–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL312 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% 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.
- A-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
12.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
58 students
DISTRICT 17% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 156 | 50% |
| Grade 4 | 155 | 50% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
52%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
WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL→SHORE ROAD SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within BELLMORE 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
79.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
93.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 79 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 93.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 81.0% |
% 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
78.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL
WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL's state test result (78.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL this school | 312 | 18.6% | 78.6% |
| PARK AVENUE SCHOOL NORTH MERRICK | 324 | 16.7% | 59.3% |
| WOOD PARK SCHOOL COMMACK | 280 | 16.8% | N/A |
| F E BELLOWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAMARONECK | 318 | 14.8% | 76.9% |
| FOREST BROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SMITHTOWN | 342 | 21.6% | 62.9% |
| LOUDONVILLE SCHOOL LOUDONVILLE | 270 | 17.8% | 68.9% |
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 WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.6% | #191 of 2,335 | #35 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #94 of 2,342 ▲ 184 | #6 of 172 ▲ 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #271 of 2,343 ▲ 129 | #42 of 172 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 312 | #1,911 of 2,585 | #156 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #1,418 of 2,338 | #124 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.4% | #1,129 of 2,388 | #108 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.6% | #2,267 of 2,534 | #115 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.2% | #341 of 606 | #41 of 70 |
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
312
+40 (+15%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 311
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 10.1:1
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 | 312 | 25.2 | 12.4:1 | 19% (58) |
| 2023-24 | 289 | 24.9 | 11.6:1 | 16% (46) |
| 2022-23 | 255 | 24.3 | 10.5:1 | 15% (38) |
| 2020-21 | 272 | 27 | 10.1:1 | 11% (30) |
| 2017-18 | 291 | 22.6 | 12.9:1 | 10% (29) |
| 2015-16 | 289 | 21 | 13.8:1 | 7% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 324 | 30 | 10.8:1 | 2% (5) |
| 2000-01 | 548 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 311 | 19 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL.
About WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL
Among the schools in BELLMORE, New York, is WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL, a small elementary school. The school's 312 students are in grades 3 through 4. Enrollment is 30% lower than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
Enrollment across the 3 schools in BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 1,135 students.
A majority of students at WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL, 66%, are White. The remaining shares are 17% Hispanic and 13% Asian. Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 52%.
The count of teachers at WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL is 25.2 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 12.4:1. Elementary schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 12.8:1. The school counts 58 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 19%. Public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
allk12 grades WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL is 10.4 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 78.6% actual, 68.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Census estimates describe Nassau County this way: median household income is about $146,202, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 315 public schools in Nassau County, with a combined enrollment of about 200,775.
The closest public school, MARTIN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 0.7 miles from WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 3rd of 8 on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 15%, from 272 to 312. The school's ratio rose from 10.1:1 to 12.4:1 between 2020-21 and 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 BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- REINHARD EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERElementary · 550 students
- SHORE ROAD SCHOOLMiddle · 273 students
Other schools in BELLMORE
- WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,211 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,089 students
- GRAND AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 916 students
- REINHARD EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERElementary · 550 students
- MARTIN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 328 students
- SHORE ROAD SCHOOLMiddle · 273 students
Nearby schools
- MARTIN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 328
- REINHARD EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER0.8 mi · 550
- GRAND AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 916
- MANDALAY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 321
- JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,089
- SHORE ROAD SCHOOL1.0 mi · 273
Frequently asked questions
About WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOLHow large is WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL?
WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 312 students in grades 03-04.
What grades does WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL serve?
WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL serves grades 03-04.
How many teachers does WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL have?
WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL?
At WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 66% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 13% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL public or private?
WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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