BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL

BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intermediate school of well-populated scale in MASSAPEQUA, New York, part of MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 1,487 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 180% above that benchmark.

MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,461 students. BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest is composed of 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 161 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate median household income runs about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 53.9%.

BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 9%, going from 1,626 students in 2018 to 1,487 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 93% to 83% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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