Test Scores and Rankings

For those interested in school rankings and test scores, here's some interesting data.

Here are North Shore's most recent state testing results:

North Shore clearly outperforms the state average. But what about our neighboring districts?

Here are our math scores:

North Shore's proficiency of 89% compares well to our neighbors' 81, 88 and 82%.

On the ELA portion:

North Shore's proficiency is 82% and the neighbors are at 80, 85 and 78%.

According to Niche.com's 2020 rankings, these neighboring districts are the #1, #2 and #7 best school districts in New York state, respectively. Read more about their rankings here and check out some alternatives, too.

Research out of Stanford shows that this measure of student growth has North Shore outperforming many of these districts. Another rankings site lists North Shore as second in Nassau County (only just squeezed out by Jericho). It's called School Digger and only uses test scores from NYSED. Finally, here's another view of the Stanford data showing the students in the best districts in Nassau County learn 20% more each year than the national average -- and that's North Shore.

Test score data source: https://data.nysed.gov/lists.php?type=district
Niche.com's 2020 Best School Districts in NY: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-school-districts/s/new-york/