16/12/2025
📊 NYS Education Department Releases Early 2024–2025 Report Card Data for Amityville Schools
📷 We now have our first snapshot of the New York State Education Department’s 2024–2025 Report Card for the Amityville School District.
⏰Several key indicators including chronic absenteeism, graduation rates, and staff qualifications have not yet been released. We will report on those metrics once they become available.
‼️After reviewing this data, the question becomes unavoidable….why was a $10.6 million surplus prioritized over student achievement by the superintendent?‼️
👩🎓 Enrollment Trends
2024–2025
Enrollment: 2,678 students
⬇️ Down from 2,721 students in 2023–2024
🌎 Student Demographics
61% Hispanic or Latino
29% Black or African American
4% White
1% Asian or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander
1% American Indian or Alaska Native
📘 Understanding “Proficient”
✔️ Proficient = On grade level
These proficiency rates align with internal district data recently presented by the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum at a Board of Education meeting, where she reported that students in grades 3–8 are performing three grade levels below where they should be academically.
✏️ Grades 3–8 English Language Arts
📗 Grade 3: 46% proficient
📘 Grade 4: 37%
📙 Grade 5: 33%
📕 Grade 6: 27%
📒 Grade 7: 18%
📓 Grade 8: 37%
📉 Overall Grades 3–8 English
32% proficient
68% NOT on grade level
➗ Grades 3–8 Math
🔢 Grade 3: 50% proficient
🔢 Grade 4: 40%
🔢 Grade 5: 27%
🔢 Grade 6: 22%
🔢 Grade 7: 18%
⚠️ Grade 8: No data provided by the district
📉 Overall Grades 3–8 Math
31.4% proficient
68.6% NOT on grade level
🔬 Science Proficiency
🧪 Grade 5: 26% proficient
🧬 Grade 8 Regents Science: 59% proficient
⏮️ Looking Back: Key 2023–2024 Data
💰 Per-pupil spending: $35,654 (Statewide average: $30,472)
👩🏫 Staff Experience
18% inexperienced teachers
40% inexperienced principals
🔍 Past Grade-Change Scandal Casts A Shadow Over Pending Data
As the district awaits the release of 2024–2025 graduation data, it is worth noting that Wyandanch School District, where Superintendent Dr. Talbert previously served, experienced a publicly reported grade-changing scandal involving altered student records connected to graduation outcomes.
How Amityville’s graduation data trends under the same leadership remains to be seen.
📌 NYSED Performance Levels
🔴 Level 1: Not Proficient
🟠 Level 2: Partial Proficiency
🟢 Level 3: Proficient
🔵 Level 4: Advanced
📸 Attached NYSED visuals provide grade-by-grade detail for English and Math.
📚 Source
https://data.nysed.gov/essa.php?year=2025&instid=800000037782
