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Enrollment
882
Middle
DISTRICT 903 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361155000911
CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL
58 W SEAMAN AVE, FREEPORT, NY 11520 · (516) 867-5270 · Nassau County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL882 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of New York public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
11.5:1
77 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
596 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 5 | 443 | 50% |
| Grade 6 | 431 | 49% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 1% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within FREEPORT 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
43.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
36.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL
CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL's state test result (36.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL this school | 882 | 67.6% | 36.1% |
| JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOL FREEPORT | 924 | 70.8% | 46.5% |
| WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL WESTBURY | 945 | 63.9% | 41.9% |
| TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOL UNIONDALE | 637 | 67.5% | 44.6% |
| MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 826 | 74.7% | 37.5% |
| RALPH REED SCHOOL CENTRAL ISLIP | 1,192 | 61.9% | 33.7% |
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 CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #653 of 766 | #50 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #616 of 768 ▼ 23 | #50 of 52 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #457 of 768 ▲ 212 | #42 of 52 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 882 | #117 of 796 | #16 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #504 of 683 | #43 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.0% | #445 of 688 | #42 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.6% | #304 of 773 | #5 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.8% | #171 of 524 | #6 of 30 |
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
882
-85 (-9%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 902
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 882 | 76.9 | 11.5:1 | 68% (596) |
| 2023-24 | 893 | 66 | 13.5:1 | 61% (546) |
| 2022-23 | 928 | 62 | 15.0:1 | 65% (607) |
| 2020-21 | 967 | 72 | 13.4:1 | 68% (661) |
| 2017-18 | 1,073 | 74 | 14.5:1 | 73% (782) |
| 2015-16 | 942 | 68 | 13.8:1 | 75% (709) |
| 2010-11 | 957 | 82 | 11.7:1 | 51% (489) |
| 2000-01 | 1,181 | 76 | 15.5:1 | 36% (423) |
| 1990-91 | 902 | 78 | 11.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL.
About CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL
This page covers CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL, a large middle school in FREEPORT, New York. In all, 882 students attend the school in grades 5 through 6. That puts enrollment 66% larger than the 531-student average for middle schools in New York.
FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT serves 6,125 students across 8 schools.
About 74% of the student body at CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL is Hispanic. Other students are 21% Black and 2% White. By comparison, Nassau County residents are about 19% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 41, compared with 70 nationally.
CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL lists 76.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 11.5 students per teacher. The school's 11.5:1 compares with an average of 10.3:1 for middle schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 68% of the student body. That rate is above the 31% average among public schools in Nassau County.
Among New York public middle schools, CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL outscored 8%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
After adjusting for student poverty, CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 36.1%; the prediction is 50.1%.
For Nassau County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $146,202 a year, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL, Nassau County has 315 public schools.
COLUMBUS AVENUE SCHOOL sits about 0.7 miles from CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL comes in 7th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 882, compared with 967 in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.5:1.
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Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,244 students
- JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 924 students
- LEO F GIBLYN SCHOOLElementary · 519 students
- BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
- ARCHER STREET SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
- NEW VISIONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
Other schools in FREEPORT
- FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,244 students
- JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 924 students
- LEO F GIBLYN SCHOOLElementary · 519 students
- BAYVIEW AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
- ARCHER STREET SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
- NEW VISIONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
Nearby schools
- COLUMBUS AVENUE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 175
- ROOSEVELT CHILDREN'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 676
- BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 236
- BALDWIN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,470
- JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 924
- CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 460
Frequently asked questions
About CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOLHow large is CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL?
CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 882 students in grades 05-06.
Is CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 05-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL is approximately 11.5:1 (77 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL?
At CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 74% Hispanic, 21% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL public or private?
CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FREEPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.