COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a heavily attended middle-grades school in COMMACK, New York, COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL serves 1,337 students from grades 6 through 8, run under COMMACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 152% above the state mean of about 531.

Across the 8 schools in COMMACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,399 students total), COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL has 118 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.8%; this one delivers 71.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ROLLING HILLS SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 66.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 1,524 students in 2018 compared to 1,337 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 80% to 65%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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