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Enrollment
706
Middle
DISTRICT 837 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361329001081
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
1200 CARLLS STRAIGHT PATH, DIX HILLS, NY 11746 · (631) 592-3300 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL706 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
9.7:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
196 students
DISTRICT 27% · 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 | 232 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 239 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 217 | 31% |
| Ungraded | 18 | 3% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
68.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
99.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 99 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 99.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
72.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (72.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 706 | 27.8% | 72.9% |
| WEST HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL MELVILLE | 968 | 23.8% | 66.6% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL BETHPAGE | 759 | 26.1% | 71.5% |
| JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER NEW YORK | 945 | 30.9% | 82.4% |
| CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOL WESTBURY | 663 | 29.4% | 69.3% |
| GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL GREAT NECK | 728 | 24.7% | 80.1% |
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 CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.9% | #102 of 766 | #2 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 99.0% | #58 of 768 ▼ 39 | #7 of 66 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #120 of 768 ▲ 35 | #3 of 66 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 706 | #203 of 796 | #31 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #240 of 683 | #21 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.1% | #27 of 688 | #2 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.8% | #636 of 773 | #41 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.4% | #334 of 524 | #40 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
706
-23 (-3%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 550
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 706 | 72.8 | 9.7:1 | 28% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 738 | 73.8 | 10.0:1 | 23% (172) |
| 2022-23 | 719 | 66.9 | 10.8:1 | 23% (165) |
| 2020-21 | 729 | 63 | 11.6:1 | 25% (181) |
| 2017-18 | 779 | 64.3 | 12.1:1 | 14% (112) |
| 2015-16 | 883 | 63 | 14.0:1 | 17% (149) |
| 2010-11 | 1,080 | 86 | 12.6:1 | 10% (103) |
| 2000-01 | 928 | 68 | 13.7:1 | 7% (65) |
| 1990-91 | 550 | 47 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle-grades school located in DIX HILLS, New York. It reported 706 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 531 students for middle schools in New York.
HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL. It runs 9 schools with 7,203 students.
The largest group at CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is White students, at 41%. Other students are 24% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 13% Black, and 6% multiracial. That is lower than the 66% White share among all Suffolk County residents. The diversity index for CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is 73%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1, with 72.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. The school has 28% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 85% of New York public middle schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is 8.1 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 72.9% actual, 64.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
In the surrounding county, Suffolk County, median household income comes to about $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county has 343 public schools and about 222,439 students.
OTSEGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th on average proficiency.
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolled 729 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 706. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 11.6:1 in 2020-21 to 9.7:1 in 2024-25.
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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 HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,407 students
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WESTHigh · 1,028 students
- WEST HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 968 students
- VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 708 students
- SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- PAUMANOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
Other schools in DIX HILLS
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,407 students
- HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WESTHigh · 1,028 students
- WESTERN SUFFOLK BOCESCombined · 866 students
- VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 708 students
- SIGNAL HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- PAUMANOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
Nearby schools
- OTSEGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 574
- BRENTWOOD RESIDENTIAL CENTER0.9 mi · 20
- WESTERN SUFFOLK BOCES1.4 mi · 866
- ROLLING HILLS SCHOOL1.5 mi · 246
- COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,337
- VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 708
Frequently asked questions
About CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 706 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.7:1 students per teacher at CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 41% White, 16% Hispanic, 13% Black, 24% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.