Public school / Primary
West Gates Avenue School
Lindenhurst, New York
- NCES ID
- 361738001550
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Gates Avenue School is a public primary school in Lindenhurst, New York, run by Lindenhurst Union Free School District. It enrols 278 students — the 68628th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
278
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
12.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
43.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Lindenhurst Union Free School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lindenhurst Senior High School1,897 students
- 2Lindenhurst Middle School1,284 students
- 3William Rall School521 students
- 4Daniel Street School512 students
- 5Albany Avenue School484 students
- 6Harding Avenue School303 students
- 7Alleghany Avenue School286 students
- 8West Gates Avenue School278 students
- Enrollment−38.6%
- Teachers−37.8%
- Students per teacher+5.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−25.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory