Munsey Park Elementary School, Manhasset NY

Original Research by School Decision on Munsey Park Elementary School

Munsey Park Elementary is a solid-performing neighborhood school in an affluent North Shore hamlet where strong academics and residential stability define the experience. The school serves about a fifth of the district's elementary enrollment across kindergarten through sixth grade in a primarily residential, well-resourced setting.

The school's academic trajectory is one of its clearest strengths. Across tested grades, proficiency in mathematics ranges from the upper-mid-eighties to low nineties, with particularly strong results in fourth grade. English language arts is consistent across grades three through six, hovering in the low-to-mid eighties. Science testing shows a meaningful gap: fifth-grade proficiency sits in the mid-sixties, substantially lower than the school's performance in core subjects. A parent may want to look into that further with the school, particularly if STEM instruction is a priority. When measured against other schools in Nassau County, the school sits in the top quartile for overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades.

The student body is affluent and predominantly white, with a substantial Asian enrollment and a smaller but present Hispanic and multiracial population. Only a small share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the neighborhood's economic profile. State testing data on students with individualized education plans and English learners was not available, so a parent seeking that demographic detail should ask the school directly.

Manhasset sits on Long Island's North Shore, built around a walkable downtown along Plandome Road anchored by the LIRR station. The hamlet combines planned early-20th-century residential neighborhoods with upscale retail corridors. The housing market is high-value, with median home values reflecting the neighborhood's affluence. Recent growth has been oriented toward premium single-family construction and luxury developments like the Ritz-Carlton Residences in North Hills. Property taxes are substantially above state average and growing at the state cap annually, a structural reality families should anticipate.

The district as a whole has invested meaningfully in elementary math support, adding a dedicated math coach and increasing instructional time—changes that flow through Munsey Park's daily operation. The district also approved a major capital bond in 2022 funding facility upgrades across all three schools, including safety work, infrastructure modernization, and academic space renovation. Both Munsey Park and the district's other elementary school (Shelter Rock) are aging buildings; those capital improvements will reshape facilities over the coming years. The tax impact of that bond is an estimated addition to annual school-tax bills that families in the district absorb long-term.

At the secondary level, the district has expanded career and pathway offerings—biomedical sciences, business, engineering, broadcast journalism, and computer science—alongside new AP and world-language courses. That programmatic breadth means students leaving Munsey Park move into a secondary school with substantive choice. Class sizes at Munsey Park reflect a typical elementary configuration; specific staffing data was not available.

Munsey Park is a conventional neighborhood elementary school in a high-income, stable community with demonstrated academic strength in literacy and mathematics, meaningful facility investment underway, and direct pipeline into a secondary school building its program breadth. It is not a specialized magnet or charter school, and it carries all the characteristics of a well-resourced public elementary in an affluent suburban district: predictable peer composition, property-tax-dependent funding with near-cap annual increases, and straightforward grade progression. For families in the Manhasset neighborhood prioritizing academic solidity, neighborhood stability, and access to maintained facilities, it fits clearly. The science proficiency gap and overall cost of living in the district are worth weighing against those strengths.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 389%

School 89% · District 87% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 491%

School 91% · District 87% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 586%

School 86% · District 86%

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 689%

School 89% · District 91% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 44 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 385%

School 85% · District 84% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 482%

School 82% · District 81% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 585%

School 85% · District 86% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 688%

School 88% · District 87% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 71% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 599%

School 99% · district not reported

▲ 7 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolMANHASSET 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-income56%Higher-income88%32 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income25%Higher-income87%62 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income33%Higher-income90%57 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income57%Higher-income90%33 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income56%Higher-income91%36 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income50%Higher-income94%44 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income42%Higher-income90%48 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income33%Higher-income91%58 pp gap