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Enrollment
967
Middle
DISTRICT 1,024 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361920001737
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
10 43RD ST, CENTEREACH, NY 11720 · (631) 285-8200 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL967 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of New York public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
13.9:1
70 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
455 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 | 272 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 311 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 376 | 39% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 1% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL→NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL 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% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
68.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -9.8pp 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 68 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 68.3% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 78.2% |
% 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
52.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (52.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 967 | 47.1% | 52.9% |
| SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL CENTEREACH | 1,080 | 51.5% | 47.5% |
| LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL LINDENHURST | 1,260 | 46.2% | 46.6% |
| J WATSON BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL KINGSTON | 936 | 45.6% | 45.4% |
| LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL LAGRANGEVILLE | 817 | 46.3% | 39.8% |
| WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL WASHINGTONVILLE | 884 | 40.0% | 52.3% |
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 DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #367 of 766 | #32 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.3% | #283 of 768 ▼ 90 | #33 of 66 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #539 of 768 ▲ 16 | #39 of 66 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 967 | #83 of 796 | #16 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #643 of 683 | #64 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #120 of 688 | #9 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.1% | #444 of 773 | #21 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #322 of 524 | #39 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
967
-51 (-5%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 1,008
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 967 | 69.6 | 13.9:1 | 47% (455) |
| 2023-24 | 1,020 | 74.6 | 13.7:1 | 41% (419) |
| 2022-23 | 1,074 | 76.5 | 14.0:1 | 37% (402) |
| 2020-21 | 1,018 | 84 | 12.1:1 | 23% (231) |
| 2017-18 | 1,075 | 79 | 13.6:1 | 33% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 1,181 | 83 | 14.2:1 | 35% (411) |
| 2010-11 | 1,193 | 91 | 13.1:1 | 22% (267) |
| 2000-01 | 1,317 | 80 | 16.5:1 | 12% (160) |
| 1990-91 | 1,008 | 74 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is the name of a large middle school in CENTEREACH, New York. It reports enrollment of 967 students in grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in New York enroll around 531, and this school is 82% bigger than that mark.
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL falls under MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 14 schools enrolling 9,410 students.
White students account for 45% of enrollment at DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, more than any other group. The remaining students are 37% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 7% Black, and 4% multiracial. Among people living in Suffolk County, the White share is about 66%. The diversity index for DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 69.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.9 students per teacher. Statewide, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Of all students at DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, 47% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 44% of New York public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, the prediction is 57.7% and the result is 52.9%.
In Suffolk County, home to about 1,530,146 people, median household income comes to about $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 the county, enrolling about 222,439, DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
Among nearby public schools, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL is closest at about 0.1 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell 5% over 4 years, reaching 967 in 2024-25. The ratio was 12.1:1 in 2020-21 and 13.9:1 in 2024-25.
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,553 students
- CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,467 students
- SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,080 students
- NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 771 students
- UNITY DRIVE KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTERElementary · 478 students
- BICYCLE PATH KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTERElementary · 449 students
Other schools in CENTEREACH
- CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,467 students
- SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,080 students
- UNITY DRIVE KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTERElementary · 478 students
- JERICHO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCombined · 423 students
- NORTH COLEMAN ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- HOLBROOK ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 396 students
Nearby schools
- CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,467
- OXHEAD ROAD SCHOOL0.5 mi · 383
- UNITY DRIVE KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTER0.7 mi · 478
- NORTH COLEMAN ROAD SCHOOL1.2 mi · 399
- JERICHO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 423
- SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,080
Frequently asked questions
About DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 967 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 13.9:1 (70 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 45% White, 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.