EAST HAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

EAST HAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school of modestly sized scale in EAST HAMPTON, New York, part of EAST HAMPTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 284 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 47% below the state mean of about 531.

Within EAST HAMPTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,870 students, EAST HAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, EAST HAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 33% White, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.9:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, EAST HAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.6%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of -1.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) shows that median household earnings sit near $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), EAST HAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: JOHN M MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAST HAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 60.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 284 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 41% to 33%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 in 2025.

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