Lakeville Elementary School, Great Neck NY

Original Research by School Decision on Lakeville Elementary School

Lakeville Elementary is a small-to-mid-sized school serving grades one through five in Great Neck, a leafy North Shore peninsula community in Nassau County characterized by upscale residential neighborhoods and a compact commercial core centered around the Great Neck Plaza transit hub. The school draws from a community of substantial means, where home values are notably high and the area anchors itself in healthcare, finance, education, and retail employment.

The academic profile is a strength. In the most recent state testing year, proficiency rates across mathematics and English language arts were uniformly strong across all tested grades. In mathematics, students in fifth grade achieved proficiency at very high levels, while third and fourth grades both reached the high nineties. In English language arts, third grade proficiency was somewhat lower than in math, but fourth and fifth grades both exceeded ninety-five percent. Science proficiency in fifth grade stood in the mid-eighties, showing relative softness compared to the other subjects, though still well above the floor. The school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among districts in Nassau County. Student participation in state assessments was consistently in the ninety to ninety-seven percent range, indicating strong engagement with testing.

The enrollment of roughly three-quarters of a student is stable across the five grades. The student body is predominantly Asian, with smaller shares of White, Hispanic, and multiracial students; fewer than one in twenty students identify as Black. A modest share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, suggesting that while most families have comfortable means, some economic diversity exists in the attendance zone. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available, so a reader may want to ask the school directly about the scope of those services.

The broader Great Neck community offers a transit-accessible setting centered on the LIRR Port Washington Branch, which connects to Manhattan's Penn Station in under an hour. The Peninsula itself is car-oriented outside the walkable downtown, and Lakeville, like other elementary schools in the district, sits on a separate suburban campus rather than in the mixed-use commercial core. The housing market is expensive, with home values well above state and national benchmarks, and the area has seen limited new residential construction in recent years, though several multifamily projects are underway along the Middle Neck Road corridor and waterfront.

The school sits within Great Neck Union Free School District, which voted in May 2024 to establish a capital reserve fund for ongoing facility improvements. Using that reserve, the district has begun phased upgrades to athletic facilities at its middle and high school campuses, including new synthetic turf fields and track resurfacing, funded without raising the tax levy. These district-level investments suggest active attention to physical infrastructure and long-term planning.

State assessment data was available only for grades three through five, so no proficiency information exists for grades one and two; this is standard practice in New York, as those grades are not tested. Civil rights and school climate data were not available, and information on discipline, teacher quality, specific program offerings, and attendance rates was not present in the accessible data. A prospective parent may want to visit the school, speak with current families, and ask about those dimensions directly.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 397%

School 97% · District 90% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 496%

School 96% · District 91% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 599%

School 99% · District 93% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 48 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 393%

School 93% · District 85% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 496%

School 96% · District 87% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 44 pts above state median · ▲ 29 pts above county median

Grade 595%

School 95% · District 88% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Science

Grade 585%

School 85% · District 80% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 5100%

School 100% · district not reported

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

This schoolGREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income87%Higher-income94%8 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income88%Higher-income98%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income96%Higher-income95%1 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income98%Higher-income96%1 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income86%Higher-income99%12 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income97%Higher-income99%3 pp gap