Vernon School, East Norwich NY - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Vernon School

Vernon School serves grades three through seven in East Norwich, a small, affluent residential hamlet on Nassau County's North Shore. The school has an enrollment of about four hundred students, with a student body that is majority white and includes a substantial share of Hispanic students alongside smaller Asian and Black populations. About one in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

The school's academic profile shows mixed results across the tested grades. In math, third-grade proficiency sits below the middle grades, while fourth grade reaches a notably stronger point, and fifth and sixth grades remain solid. In English language arts, third-grade results are again lower, but grades four through six show consistent strength. Science testing is available only for fifth grade, where proficiency falls short of the ELA and math performance seen that year. Vernon's proficiency index places it below the midpoint among Nassau County's districts, a positioning that a parent may want to explore further with the school when visiting or in conversation about instructional priorities.

A notable feature of the school's grade configuration is that seventh grade, while listed as part of the school's band, currently has only a handful of students and does not appear in state assessment results. This reflects the district structure: students typically move to the middle and high school in Oyster Bay after sixth grade, so the seventh-grade cohort at Vernon is minimal or transitional. Most families' time at Vernon is therefore in grades three through six.

The surrounding community is residential, made up mainly of single detached homes and older Colonial and Cape Cod houses on spacious lots, with the oldest colonial concentration just south of Route 25A. East Norwich is car-dependent; residents typically drive to work and daily life centers on dispersed commercial strips along Route 25A and Oyster Bay Road rather than on a walkable town center. The Muttontown Preserve, Nassau County's largest nature preserve at over three hundred acres, anchors the area's open space and is a meaningful draw for residents. Home values in the zip code are substantial, and the housing market is active but moderately supplied relative to demand.

The district completed a capital improvement bond in recent years that funded facility upgrades at Vernon including a new music wing and renovated classrooms and cafeteria. Starting in 2023-2024, the district also expanded early childhood and elementary programming with full-day state-funded pre-kindergarten and new robotics and coding units in elementary grades, changes that matter for families considering the school over the full K-6 arc.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 360%

School 60% · District 60%

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 478%

School 78% · District 78%

▲ 19 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 69%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 684%

School 84% · District 84%

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

Grade 70%

School 0% · District 82% · ▼ 82 pts below district

▼ 53 pts below state median · ▼ 68 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 54%

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 474%

School 74% · District 74%

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 575%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 675%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 70%

School 0% · District 71% · ▼ 71 pts below district

▼ 47 pts below state median · ▼ 59 pts below county median

Science

Grade 555%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 597%

School 97% · district not reported

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

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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-income26%Higher-income67%41 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income35%Higher-income88%53 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income59%Higher-income79%20 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income65%Higher-income78%13 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income26%Higher-income76%50 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income32%Higher-income93%61 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income56%Higher-income73%17 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income56%Higher-income91%34 pp gap