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What's something BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,258
Middle
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAY SHORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360408000165
BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL
393 BROOK AVE, BAY SHORE, NY 11706 · (631) 968-1208 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,258 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
119 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
545 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 408 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 413 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 416 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 21 | 2% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL→BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within BAY SHORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
68.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 68.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 66.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL
BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (49.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,258 | 43.3% | 49.9% |
| MONROE-WOODBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL CENTRAL VALLEY | 1,559 | 44.1% | 54.1% |
| WHITE PLAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL WHITE PLAINS | 1,537 | 51.1% | 54.4% |
| SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL SUFFERN | 880 | 41.7% | 56.2% |
| HENRY L STIMSON MIDDLE SCHOOL HUNTINGTON STATION | 845 | 45.8% | 49.8% |
| WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL MORICHES | 1,124 | 54.4% | 50.3% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.9% | #428 of 766 | #37 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #289 of 768 ▲ 13 | #35 of 66 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #532 of 768 ▼ 29 | #36 of 66 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,258 | #34 of 796 | #5 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #381 of 683 | #43 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #133 of 688 | #10 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.3% | #498 of 773 | #28 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.0% | #344 of 524 | #42 of 59 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,258
-60 (-5%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 1,029
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 11.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,258 | 119.1 | 10.6:1 | 43% (545) |
| 2023-24 | 1,269 | 119.3 | 10.6:1 | 57% (725) |
| 2022-23 | 1,298 | 114.5 | 11.3:1 | 56% (723) |
| 2020-21 | 1,318 | 120 | 11.0:1 | 57% (755) |
| 2017-18 | 1,382 | 100.5 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 1,386 | 99 | 14.0:1 | 53% (730) |
| 2010-11 | 1,352 | 105 | 12.9:1 | 50% (679) |
| 2000-01 | 1,303 | 93 | 14.0:1 | 41% (529) |
| 1990-91 | 1,029 | 77 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Students in BAY SHORE, New York, attend BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL, a large middle-grades school. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 1,258 students enrolled. For comparison, middle schools in New York average about 531 students.
BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of BAY SHORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, where 8 schools serve 5,529 students.
At BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL, Hispanic students make up 52% of the student body. The remaining shares are 24% White, 17% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL's diversity index is 64%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL total 119.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.6:1. That matches the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York fairly closely. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 43%.
Measured against New York public middle schools, BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 49.9% actual against 59.1% predicted.
Suffolk County census figures show that the median household income is $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Suffolk County is home to 343 public schools and about 222,439 public school students.
The nearest other public school, MARY G CLARKSON SCHOOL, is about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 5 nearby schools with scores, including this one, BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2nd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 1,258, a 5% decrease from 1,318 in 2020-21.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BAY SHORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,862 students
- GARDINER MANOR SCHOOLElementary · 739 students
- SOUTH COUNTRY SCHOOLElementary · 496 students
- MARY G CLARKSON SCHOOLElementary · 469 students
- FIFTH AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 342 students
- BROOK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 336 students
Other schools in BAY SHORE
- BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,862 students
- SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 975 students
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 906 students
- GARDINER MANOR SCHOOLElementary · 739 students
- OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 678 students
- HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 609 students
Nearby schools
- MARY G CLARKSON SCHOOL0.3 mi · 469
- BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,862
- BROOK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 336
- FIFTH AVENUE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 342
- BAY SHORE PREKINDERGARTEN CENTER1.1 mi · 27
- HEMLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 609
Frequently asked questions
About BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,258 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.6:1 students per teacher at BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 24% White, 52% Hispanic, 17% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BAY SHORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.