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If you had an hour of school board time for ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
425
Middle
DISTRICT 483 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361068000841
ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
478 ELWOOD RD, ELWOOD, NY 11731 · (631) 266-5420 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL425 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 61% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
9.4:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
110 students
DISTRICT 24% · 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 | 132 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 146 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 144 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL→ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ELWOOD 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
66.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
70.6%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 70.6% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 69.6% |
% 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
62.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (62.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 425 | 25.9% | 62.5% |
| ORVILLE A TODD MIDDLE SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 385 | 25.7% | 66.5% |
| VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 442 | 24.0% | 75.4% |
| FELIX FESTA ACHIEVEMENT MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST NYACK | 609 | 22.7% | 56.0% |
| FELIX FESTA CHARACTER MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST NYACK | 612 | 25.2% | 56.1% |
| WOODMERE MIDDLE SCHOOL HEWLETT | 644 | 25.5% | 64.4% |
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 ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #227 of 766 | #22 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #268 of 768 no change | #32 of 66 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #141 of 768 ▲ 46 | #6 of 66 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 425 | #414 of 796 | #57 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #183 of 683 | #15 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.5% | #154 of 688 | #14 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.9% | #656 of 773 | #43 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.4% | #93 of 524 | #5 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
425
-67 (-14%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 438
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 425 | 45.1 | 9.4:1 | 26% (110) |
| 2023-24 | 445 | 49.2 | 9.1:1 | 24% (107) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 46.9 | 9.8:1 | 22% (100) |
| 2020-21 | 492 | 45 | 10.9:1 | 25% (121) |
| 2017-18 | 570 | 40.8 | 14.0:1 | 22% (128) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 37 | 15.2:1 | 19% (105) |
| 2010-11 | 667 | 46 | 14.5:1 | 14% (95) |
| 2000-01 | 515 | 35 | 14.7:1 | 13% (65) |
| 1990-91 | 438 | 30 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small middle school in ELWOOD, New York, (ZIP code 11731). The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 425 students.
The ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 4 schools and 1,933 students.
Federal enrollment data show ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is 54% White. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 6% Black, and 2% multiracial. The county population is about 66% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 63, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 45.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 9.4:1. Across middle schools in New York, the average ratio is 10.3:1. Roughly 26% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County, the school's rate is lower.
ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 61% of New York public middle schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 65.5%. ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 62.5%.
Suffolk County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Suffolk County's 343 public schools enroll about 222,439 students and include ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
The closest school to ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL, located about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is behind the 74.4% nearby average, ranking 7th of 8.
ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased 14% over 4 years, reaching 425 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 10.9:1 to 9.4:1.
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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 ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 677 students
- JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 421 students
- HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 410 students
Other schools in ELWOOD
- ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 677 students
- HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 410 students
Nearby schools
- ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 677
- JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 421
- HARLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 410
- THOMAS J LAHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 602
- HARBORFIELDS HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 923
- PULASKI ROAD SCHOOL1.4 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 425 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.4:1 students per teacher at ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 54% White, 24% Hispanic, 6% Black, 13% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of ELWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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