Enrollment
277
Elementary
DISTRICT 321 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HICKSVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361434001190
WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL
85 KETCHAM RD, HICKSVILLE, NY 11801 · (516) 733-2332 · Nassau County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL277 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 63% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test 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
11.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
118 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 20 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Based on grade levels within HICKSVILLE 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
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 65.0% |
% 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
58.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL
WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL's state test result (58.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL this school | 277 | 42.6% | 58.7% |
| FORK LANE SCHOOL HICKSVILLE | 270 | 50.7% | 42.4% |
| PS 186 CASTLEWOOD BELLEROSE | 319 | 48.0% | 72.3% |
| PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL BAYSIDE | 225 | 36.9% | 82.2% |
| DUTCH LANE SCHOOL HICKSVILLE | 216 | 52.3% | 51.5% |
| PS 169 BAY TERRACE BAYSIDE | 406 | 32.5% | 64.9% |
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 WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.7% | #806 of 2,335 | #120 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #810 of 2,342 ▼ 75 | #117 of 172 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #989 of 2,343 ▼ 28 | #124 of 172 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 277 | #2,120 of 2,585 | #171 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #887 of 2,338 | #78 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #351 of 2,388 | #36 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.6% | #1,616 of 2,534 | #44 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #904 of 1,757 | #35 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
277
-1 (0%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 217
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 277 | 25 | 11.1:1 | 43% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 325 | 24.7 | 13.2:1 | 29% (95) |
| 2022-23 | 349 | 26 | 13.4:1 | 39% (136) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | 24 | 11.6:1 | 28% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 322 | 21 | 15.3:1 | 26% (85) |
| 2015-16 | 300 | 19 | 15.8:1 | 28% (84) |
| 2010-11 | 353 | 23 | 15.3:1 | 19% (68) |
| 2000-01 | 338 | 20 | 16.9:1 | 10% (33) |
| 1990-91 | 217 | 14 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL.
About WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL
Among the schools in HICKSVILLE, New York, is WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL, a small elementary school. The school counts 277 students across kindergarten through 5. The school's enrollment is 37% smaller than the 443 average for elementary schools in New York.
Enrollment across the 9 schools in HICKSVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 5,285 students.
Asian students are the largest group at WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL, with 44% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 29% Hispanic, 22% White, and 5% multiracial. Nassau County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 67%.
With 25 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL was 11.1:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 43%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Nassau County is 31%.
The allk12 Grade for WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL is B. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 63% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 58.7%, compared with a predicted 59.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Nassau County has these Census figures: 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%. The public schools of Nassau County number 315 and enroll about 200,775.
STRATFORD ROAD SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL is 8th of 9 on proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 278 in 2020-21, 277 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 HICKSVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HICKSVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,825 students
- HICKSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,215 students
- LEE AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 436 students
- OLD COUNTRY ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 394 students
- EAST STREET SCHOOLElementary · 389 students
- FORK LANE SCHOOLElementary · 270 students
Other schools in HICKSVILLE
- HICKSVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,825 students
- HICKSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,215 students
- LEE AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 436 students
- OLD COUNTRY ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 394 students
- EAST STREET SCHOOLElementary · 389 students
- FORK LANE SCHOOLElementary · 270 students
Nearby schools
- STRATFORD ROAD SCHOOL0.7 mi · 621
- EAST STREET SCHOOL1.0 mi · 389
- BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 416
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 433
- GEORGE A JACKSON SCHOOL1.1 mi · 432
- PASADENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 455
Frequently asked questions
About WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOLHow many students attend WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL?
WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 277 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL serve?
WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL is approximately 11.1:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL?
WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL reports a student body of 22% White, 29% Hispanic, 0% Black, 44% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL public or private?
WOODLAND AVENUE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HICKSVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.