Forest Lake School
Wantagh, NY · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Forest Lake School is a elementary school in Wantagh, NY with 387 students enrolled and a 73% proficiency rate. Part of Wantagh Union Free School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Forest Lake School is a elementary school located in Wantagh, New York. The school serves 387 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 24.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 73% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Forest Lake School is part of the Wantagh Union Free School District in New York.
How This School Compares
Forest Lake School has 387 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Wantagh Union Free School District (575 students). Its 73% proficiency rate is 4 percentage points above the district average of 69%. Compared to the New York state average of 47%, the school performs 26 points higher. The 24.2:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Forest Lake School has 387 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 24.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 73% of students at Forest Lake School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Forest Lake School is part of the Wantagh Union Free School District in Wantagh, New York. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.