EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in BRENTWOOD, New York, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle-grades school, one of the schools within BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 1,108 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 109% larger than the state mean of about 531.

BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 17,844 students. EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest is composed of 6% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL has 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.9%; this one delivers 43.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

Nearest neighbor: EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL has decreased 3%, going from 1,146 students in 2018 to 1,108 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 86% to 91% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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