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Enrollment
1,081
Middle
DISTRICT 763 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360831000610
COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL
2650 GREAT NECK RD, COPIAGUE, NY 11726 · (631) 842-4011 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,081 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of New York public middle schools
- C-Test 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.
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
12.0:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
628 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 328 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 418 | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 335 | 31% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL→WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within COPIAGUE 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
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
50.6%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 50.6% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 43.0% |
% 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
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL
COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,081 | 58.1% | 41.5% |
| FIELDSTONE MIDDLE SCHOOL THIELLS | 1,207 | 57.4% | 45.4% |
| WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL WESTBURY | 945 | 63.9% | 41.9% |
| RALPH REED SCHOOL CENTRAL ISLIP | 1,192 | 61.9% | 33.7% |
| SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL NEWBURGH | 782 | 52.8% | 29.1% |
| CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL FREEPORT | 882 | 67.6% | 36.1% |
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 COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #586 of 766 | #55 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #494 of 768 ▲ 75 | #50 of 66 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #535 of 768 ▲ 108 | #38 of 66 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,081 | #59 of 796 | #9 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #551 of 683 | #58 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.5% | #368 of 688 | #41 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.1% | #357 of 773 | #9 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.9% | #510 of 524 | #57 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
1,081
-68 (-6%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 850
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 1,081 | 90.4 | 12.0:1 | 58% (628) |
| 2023-24 | 1,077 | 91.5 | 11.8:1 | 60% (646) |
| 2022-23 | 1,061 | 89.7 | 11.8:1 | 55% (588) |
| 2020-21 | 1,149 | 71 | 16.2:1 | 52% (603) |
| 2017-18 | 1,091 | 86.4 | 12.6:1 | 70% (760) |
| 2015-16 | 1,112 | 79 | 14.1:1 | 72% (797) |
| 2010-11 | 1,098 | 76 | 14.4:1 | 65% (716) |
| 2000-01 | 1,037 | 66 | 15.7:1 | 52% (542) |
| 1990-91 | 850 | 64 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Located in COPIAGUE, New York, COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle school. It educates 1,081 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 104% above the 531 average for middle schools in New York.
COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL belongs to COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 6 schools and 4,579 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL, at 69%. The remaining shares are 18% Black and 9% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Suffolk County's population at about 23%. Pick two students at random and there is a 48% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 90.4 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 12.0:1. That is 1.7 students per teacher above the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 58% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
Measured against New York public middle schools, COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL would score about 53.6%. It scores 41.5%, 12.1 points below that figure.
Suffolk County census figures show that the median household income is $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 343 public schools in Suffolk County, enrolling about 222,439 students in all.
The closest public school to COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is behind the 47.2% nearby average, ranking 5th of 8.
Federal data place COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 1,081 students in 2024-25, 68 fewer than the 1,149 it had in 2020-21. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.2:1 to 12.0:1.
The COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,567 students
- SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOLElementary · 611 students
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
- GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 427 students
Other schools in COPIAGUE
- WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,567 students
- SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOLElementary · 611 students
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
- GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 427 students
Nearby schools
- WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,567
- NORTHEAST SCHOOL0.7 mi · 145
- GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 428
- SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 611
- EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 592
- ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 498
Frequently asked questions
About COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,081 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.0:1 students per teacher at COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 9% White, 69% Hispanic, 18% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.