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What's one thing EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,108
Middle
DISTRICT 1,010 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360528000248
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL
70 HILLTOP DR, BRENTWOOD, NY 11717 · (631) 434-2473 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,108 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of New York public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
11.4:1
98 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
967 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 | 375 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 348 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 385 | 35% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
33.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
42.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 42.3% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 37.1% |
% 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
43.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (43.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,108 | 87.3% | 43.1% |
| NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 1,051 | 85.2% | 38.4% |
| SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 975 | 86.2% | 42.6% |
| IS 145 JOSEPH PULITZER JACKSON HEIGHTS | 1,397 | 92.3% | 51.0% |
| WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 906 | 82.2% | 36.9% |
| IS 93 RIDGEWOOD RIDGEWOOD | 954 | 92.1% | 40.2% |
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 EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.1% | #563 of 766 | #51 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.3% | #610 of 768 ▲ 38 | #59 of 66 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #647 of 768 ▲ 71 | #53 of 66 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,108 | #52 of 796 | #8 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #485 of 683 | #51 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.2% | #620 of 688 | #65 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.3% | #168 of 773 | #1 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.3% | #462 of 524 | #53 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
1,108
-61 (-5%) vs 2020
+55% since 1990-91, when it was 716
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 1,108 | 97.5 | 11.4:1 | 87% (967) |
| 2023-24 | 1,119 | 92.4 | 12.1:1 | 83% (930) |
| 2022-23 | 1,159 | 86.6 | 13.4:1 | 87% (1,005) |
| 2020-21 | 1,169 | 81 | 14.4:1 | 90% (1,057) |
| 2017-18 | 1,146 | 63 | 18.2:1 | 88% (1,005) |
| 2015-16 | 1,081 | 61 | 17.7:1 | 87% (937) |
| 2010-11 | 922 | 64 | 14.4:1 | 75% (688) |
| 2000-01 | 944 | 55 | 17.2:1 | 58% (550) |
| 1990-91 | 716 | 52 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public middle school run by BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in BRENTWOOD, New York. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 1,108 students on the rolls. Middle schools in New York average about 531 students, which makes this school 109% larger than average.
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one school in a 17-school district, BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 17,844 students.
The share of students at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL who are Hispanic is 91%. Other groups include 6% Black. By comparison, Suffolk County residents are about 23% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 17, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 97.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 11.4:1. The school's 11.4:1 compares with an average of 10.3:1 for middle schools in New York. By family income, 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County.
On the allk12 Grade, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 37% of New York public middle schools.
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 43.1% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 42.9%.
In the surrounding county, Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, Suffolk County has 343 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 37.6%; EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL's is 43.1%, ranking 2nd of 7.
Federal data place EAST 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 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 5% decline, from 1,169 to 1,108. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.4:1 to 11.4:1.
This page collects posts and questions about EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, such as fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,816 students
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CAMPUSHigh · 1,287 students
- NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,051 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 975 students
- SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 975 students
- NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 937 students
Other schools in BRENTWOOD
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,816 students
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CAMPUSHigh · 1,287 students
- NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,051 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 975 students
- NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 937 students
- NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 881 students
Other East Middle schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named East Middle. EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 18.
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLWEST SENECA, NY · 567 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLBINGHAMTON, NY · 465 students
- East Middle SchoolSioux City, IA · 1,076 students
- East Middle SchoolBraintree, MA · 999 students
- East Middle SchoolTRAVERSE CITY, MI · 829 students
Nearby schools
- EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 430
- NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 937
- SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 533
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 4,816
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 975
- PINE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 544
Frequently asked questions
About EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,108 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 91% Hispanic, 6% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.