ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL

ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a 6-8 campus of cozy scale in ELWOOD, New York, overseen by ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 425 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,933 students, ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 24% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.5%.

In the area at large, Suffolk County reports that median household earnings sit near $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 74.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 25%, going from 570 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 67% to 54% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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