The top reported proficiency rate is 96% in Social studies. The lowest is 30% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Old Country Road School
Old Country Road School is a kindergarten-through-fifth-grade neighborhood elementary school in Hicksville, part of the Hicksville Union Free School District in Nassau County. Its enrollment is in the low hundreds, sized comparably to many suburban Long Island elementaries serving the same grade band.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial Asian population and smaller shares of white, Black, and other students. Well over half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a community with meaningful economic need. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.
On the New York State Testing Program, math results are the clearer strength. Fourth graders reached proficiency at a solid rate, and third and fifth graders landed in the low-to-mid range. ELA tells a more mixed story: fourth and fifth graders came in around the mid-range, but third-grade ELA proficiency was notably lower, with fewer than four in ten students scoring at proficiency. That third-grade ELA result is a gap worth asking the school about directly, particularly for parents of incoming students. Fifth-grade science proficiency was also low, with roughly three in ten students reaching the proficient threshold. Placed against districts across Nassau County, the school's overall proficiency index sits below the county midpoint. Social studies data in the system reflects only a very old testing cycle and is not useful for current comparison.
The district context adds important weight here. New York State designated Hicksville UFSD as a Target District on its 2025-26 accountability list, with one elementary school flagged for additional targeted support and improvement based on academic performance. Whether that designation applies specifically to Old Country Road School is not stated in the available data, but the district-level designation is material context for families assessing academic quality. The district has also been navigating significant budget pressure: it pierced the state tax cap for 2025-26, required a supermajority vote to pass its budget, drew on reserves to cover a deficit, and came close to cutting athletics, AP courses, fine arts, and the third-grade music program before a retirement incentive and capital reserve shift narrowed the gap. A mid-school period was eliminated at the middle school level and replaced with a "success studio," a change that does not directly affect this elementary school's students today but signals the kind of tradeoffs the district has been making as its cohort moves up. A technology capital reserve was approved by voters, which is a modest positive for infrastructure investment without additional tax burden.
Hicksville itself is a dense, commercially active suburb about thirty miles east of Manhattan, shaped strongly by its Long Island Rail Road station. That station is one of the most used on the LIRR and is currently undergoing a major modernization that will add capacity and additional daily service. Publicly reported accounts describe the town's downtown as the focus of a state-backed Downtown Revitalization Initiative, with new mixed-use transit-oriented housing projects bringing ground-floor retail and public plazas near the station. The 2021 zoning changes from the Town of Oyster Bay are oriented around building a more walkable, mixed-use core near the station, though that character is still developing rather than established. Cantiague Park provides recreational anchors including an ice rink, golf, and pools. Healthcare, retail, and professional services are the dominant employment sectors, with Slomin's as a locally headquartered private-sector employer of note.
The housing market around this school's zip code is expensive well above both state and national medians, with home values sitting at a level that reflects Nassau County's broader premium. Rents have been rising at a pace faster than the general cost-of-shelter index nationally. For a buyer entering this market, the cost of ownership at current prices and mortgage rates is substantially higher than a typical rent, meaning the financial calculus of settling into this attendance zone is a real one. Inventory in Nassau County has grown somewhat year over year, but the market remains competitive.
For a family weighing this school, the picture is a neighborhood elementary with a diverse, economically mixed student body, math results that are more encouraging than ELA and science results, and a district operating under genuine fiscal and accountability pressure. Those are facts to hold alongside what the school says about its specific supports and trajectory.
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