Glenwood Landing Elementary School, Glen Head NY

Original Research by School Decision on Glenwood Landing Elementary School

Glenwood Landing Elementary is an affluent public school serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in Glen Head, an established North Shore residential hamlet. The school enrolls just over four hundred students, with a majority from white families, a meaningful share from Asian families, and a smaller Hispanic population. Enrollment across the grade bands sits fairly evenly, from around forty-six kindergarteners through eighty-four fifth graders, with the cohort size stable.

The school's state assessment results in recent years paint a picture of strong math performance and solid but slightly lower achievement in English language arts. In math, third through fifth graders show proficiency rates in the mid-to-upper nineties. In ELA, results dip somewhat: third-grade proficiency sits in the low eighties, fourth grade in the mid-eighties, and fifth grade in the mid-eighties as well. Fifth-grade science proficiency stands near eighty percent. Across tested subjects and grade levels, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among districts across Nassau County. This is a meaningful distinction: the school is performing well above the median for the county, though individual families may want to examine the gap between math and ELA results more closely with the school to understand what factors shape that pattern.

Glen Head itself is a small, tree-lined, primarily single-family residential community about twenty-five miles east of Manhattan on Long Island. Homes in the area are expensive; the median home value is well above one and a half million dollars, with year-over-year price growth of several percent. The housing market shows moderate activity, with median days on market under six weeks. This is a fully developed suburban neighborhood with little new commercial construction, and it functions as a bedroom community rather than an employment center. A few local businesses and professional services cluster near Glen Head Road and the Glen Head Station on the Long Island Rail Road; broader shopping and dining options rely on nearby Glen Cove and Sea Cliff. The Gold Coast Public Library moved to a new building in 2025. Harry Tappen Beach and Marina in adjacent Glenwood Landing offers waterfront recreation and walking paths.

Glenwood Landing Elementary is part of the North Shore Central School District, which serves Glen Head, Glenwood Landing, Sea Cliff, Old Brookville, and parts of Greenvale and Roslyn Harbor. The district has undertaken a significant literacy curriculum overhaul: beginning in 2025-26, elementary grades will transition to CKLA for kindergarten through third grade and HMH materials for fourth and fifth grade, driven by state requirements for evidence-based reading instruction. This represents a meaningful pedagogical shift that will shape how reading is taught across all elementary grades. In February 2026, voters approved several hundred million dollars in capital improvements for athletic fields, air conditioning, and facility upgrades across the district. That same spring, voters approved a 2026-27 operating budget slightly above one billion dollars, a modest increase from the prior year, translating to per-pupil spending at the higher end for the region. The district describes these capital improvements as tax-neutral, reallocating funds from a previously retired bond.

Free-and-reduced-lunch data, special education counts, English learner enrollment, and historical trend data for the school were not available. Because Glenwood Landing serves only pre-K through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. The school's participation rates on the state assessments in some grades (particularly fifth grade, where participation hovers around eighty percent) are worth understanding further; families may want to ask the school about the reasons for those gaps.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 397%

School 97% · District 93% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

Grade 494%

School 94% · District 90% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 596%

School 96% · District 94% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 382%

School 82% · District 86% · ▼ 3 pts below district

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

Grade 485%

School 85% · District 85%

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 586%

School 86% · District 86%

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Science

Grade 581%

School 81% · District 77% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 598%

School 98% · district not reported

▲ 7 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolNORTH SHORE CENTRAL 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-income78%Higher-income83%5 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income91%Higher-income84%7 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income83%Higher-income86%3 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income89%Higher-income98%9 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income91%Higher-income95%4 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income83%Higher-income98%15 pp gap