BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in WEST ISLIP, New York, BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL is a compact middle-grades school, run under WEST ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 380 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 28% below that benchmark.

Across the 7 schools in WEST ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,816 students total), BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school shows 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.0:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.8%.

In the surrounding community, Suffolk County reports that median household income runs about $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

WEST ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. BEACH STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 31% since 2018, when it stood at 549 (now 380). Class-load math has tightened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.