NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in East Meadow, NY

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6 public K-12 schools in East Meadow from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
5,337
Students
50.2/100
Avg Resource Index
11.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, East Meadow has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. East Meadow's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of East Meadow's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

East Meadow's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 87th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 12-point gap between Woodland Middle School and Meadowbrook Elementary School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 42%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
87th percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

East Meadow High School accounts for 29.0% of all East Meadow public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means East Meadow-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

East Meadow school enrollment varies 3.5× across entities

East Meadow school enrollment ranges from 442 students (lowest) to 1,549 students (highest), a spread of 1,107 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

East Meadow operates one school district — a single-district system

East Meadow's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

East Meadow student-teacher ratio is 11.3:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Woodland Middle School 56
2. East Meadow High School 52
3. Mcvey Elementary School 50
4. Parkway School 50
5. Barnum Woods School 49
6. Meadowbrook Elementary School 44

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in East Meadow

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Meadowbrook Elementary School 71.5/100
  2. 2 Barnum Woods School 70.8/100
  3. 3 Woodland Middle School 70.3/100
  4. 4 East Meadow High School 69.7/100
  5. 5 Parkway School 69.5/100

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Which East Meadow school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Woodland Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the East Meadow schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in East Meadow, NY? ▼

East Meadow has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,337 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.