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Enrollment
592
Middle
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360294000062
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL
501 RT 110, AMITYVILLE, NY 11701 · (631) 565-6200 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL592 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of New York public middle schools
- DTest 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
9.9:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
433 students
DISTRICT 70% · 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 | 168 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 220 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 199 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL→AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within AMITYVILLE 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
27.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
39.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -18.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 18 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 39.5% |
| 2023-24 | 23.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
36.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (36.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 592 | 73.1% | 36.5% |
| MILTON L OLIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL WYANDANCH | 546 | 76.9% | 32.1% |
| TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOL UNIONDALE | 637 | 67.5% | 44.6% |
| LAWRENCE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL HEMPSTEAD | 623 | 65.3% | 39.8% |
| MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 826 | 74.7% | 37.5% |
| YONKERS MIDDLE SCHOOL YONKERS | 540 | 76.5% | 51.3% |
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 EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #650 of 766 | #62 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #638 of 768 ▼ 257 | #61 of 66 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #715 of 768 ▲ 14 | #59 of 66 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 592 | #286 of 796 | #40 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.9:1 | #268 of 683 | #24 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.8% | #266 of 688 | #32 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.1% | #271 of 773 | #6 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #446 of 524 | #51 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
592
-77 (-12%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 804
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 592 | 60 | 9.9:1 | 73% (433) |
| 2023-24 | 600 | 68.9 | 8.7:1 | 68% (408) |
| 2022-23 | 599 | 65.3 | 9.2:1 | 75% (449) |
| 2020-21 | 669 | 57 | 11.7:1 | 75% (500) |
| 2017-18 | 617 | 62 | 9.9:1 | 80% (491) |
| 2015-16 | 625 | 61 | 10.3:1 | 76% (475) |
| 2010-11 | 630 | 47 | 13.4:1 | 63% (397) |
| 2000-01 | 740 | 58 | 12.8:1 | 73% (539) |
| 1990-91 | 804 | 77 | 10.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle-grades school in AMITYVILLE, New York, administered by AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The student body numbers 592 students, from grades 6 through 8.
In AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 5 schools enroll a combined 2,802 students.
Roughly 59% of students at EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL are Hispanic. Other groups include 32% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% White. By comparison, Suffolk County residents are about 23% Hispanic. EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL's diversity index is 55%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reports 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 9.9 students per teacher. That is close to the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 73% of students. Among public schools in Suffolk County, the average eligibility rate is 39%.
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded D by allk12, scoring above 11% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 36.5% is 11.6 points below the 48.1% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Federal survey data for Suffolk County show that the median household income is $130,686, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. In all, Suffolk County has 343 public schools and roughly 222,439 students.
Of nearby public schools, NORTHEAST SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.5 miles. EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in 6th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school enrolled 592 students in 2024-25, 77 fewer than the 669 it had in 2020-21. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (9.9:1) than in 2020-21 (11.7:1).
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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 AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 936 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 604 students
- NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 525 students
- NORTHEAST SCHOOLElementary · 145 students
Other schools in AMITYVILLE
- AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 936 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 604 students
- NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 525 students
- NORTHEAST SCHOOLElementary · 145 students
Nearby schools
- NORTHEAST SCHOOL0.5 mi · 145
- NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 525
- COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,081
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 604
- WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,567
- EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 523
Frequently asked questions
About EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL?
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 592 students in grades 06-08.
Is EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 9.9:1 (60 FTE teachers).
How diverse is EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL?
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 3% White, 59% Hispanic, 32% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL?
EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.