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BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a 6-8 campus of expansive scale in BALDWIN, New York, one of the schools within BALDWIN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 1,007 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 90% above typical.
Within BALDWIN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 4,309 students, BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Black (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Nassau County's rate of about 31%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.5%; this one delivers 53.9%.
In the broader community, Nassau County reports that median household income runs about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 65.2%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 1,080 students in 2018 compared to 1,007 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 17% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.
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