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Enrollment
1,034
Middle
DISTRICT 562 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDEN CITY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361176000941
GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL
98 CHERRY VALLEY AVE, GARDEN CITY, NY 11530 · (516) 478-3000 · Nassau County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,034 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% of New York public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
12.7:1
81 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
5%
47 students
DISTRICT 3% · 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 | 325 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 390 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 318 | 31% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL→GARDEN CITY HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within GARDEN CITY 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
78.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
94.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 94.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 93.3% |
% 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
83.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL
GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (83.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,034 | 4.5% | 83.3% |
| BARKER ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL PITTSFORD | 717 | 2.2% | 83.8% |
| CARRIE PALMER WEBER MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT WASHINGTON | 1,213 | 6.2% | 79.8% |
| RYE MIDDLE SCHOOL RYE | 634 | 2.5% | 86.7% |
| EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL EASTCHESTER | 695 | 3.0% | 75.2% |
| CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL PITTSFORD | 602 | 3.2% | 82.6% |
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 GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #32 of 766 | #8 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #87 of 768 ▼ 4 | #16 of 52 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #55 of 768 ▲ 18 | #9 of 52 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,034 | #67 of 796 | #7 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #603 of 683 | #50 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.7% | #462 of 688 | #43 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 4.5% | #764 of 773 | #51 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.1% | #58 of 168 | #6 of 21 |
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
1,034
+170 (+20%) vs 2020
+45% since 1990-91, when it was 714
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 1,034 | 81.5 | 12.7:1 | 5% (47) |
| 2023-24 | 1,021 | 86.4 | 11.8:1 | 4% (42) |
| 2022-23 | 928 | 77.5 | 12.0:1 | 4% (39) |
| 2020-21 | 864 | 77 | 11.2:1 | 2% (18) |
| 2017-18 | 931 | 76.5 | 12.2:1 | 2% (21) |
| 2015-16 | 1,001 | 76 | 13.2:1 | 2% (23) |
| 2010-11 | 1,046 | 88 | 11.9:1 | 0% (3) |
| 2000-01 | 956 | 80 | 11.9:1 | 1% (6) |
| 1990-91 | 714 | 60 | 11.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL
Families in GARDEN CITY, New York, are served by GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL, a large middle school. The school's 1,034 students are in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 95% higher than the average for middle schools in New York, which is about 531.
GARDEN CITY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 7 schools and 3,932 students, and GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
By race and ethnicity, GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 76% White. Other reported shares: 13% Asian and 8% Hispanic. That compares with about 57% White among all Nassau County residents. GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL has a diversity index of 40%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Dividing enrollment by its 81.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 12.7:1. The average ratio among middle schools in New York is 10.3:1, lower than at this school. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 5%. For comparison, public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded A by allk12, scoring above 91% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 83.3%, compared with a predicted 73.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in Nassau County, where median household income is about $146,202, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County, which together enroll about 200,775 students.
The next-closest public school is GARDEN CITY HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among its closest neighbors with test data, GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2nd of 8 on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 864 to 1,034. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 11.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.7:1.
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Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GARDEN CITY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GARDEN CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,096 students
- STRATFORD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 638 students
- STEWART SCHOOLElementary · 624 students
- HOMESTEAD SCHOOLElementary · 205 students
- HEMLOCK SCHOOLElementary · 184 students
- LOCUST SCHOOLElementary · 151 students
Other schools in GARDEN CITY
- NASSAU BOCESCombined · 1,797 students
- GARDEN CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,096 students
- STRATFORD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 638 students
- STEWART SCHOOLElementary · 624 students
- HOMESTEAD SCHOOLElementary · 205 students
- HEMLOCK SCHOOLElementary · 184 students
Other Garden City Middle schools
One other US public school is named Garden City Middle. GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Garden City Middle SchoolGARDEN CITY, MI · 423 students
Nearby schools
- GARDEN CITY HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,096
- RHODES ACADEMY OF HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS1.2 mi · 631
- STRATFORD AVENUE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 638
- GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL1.2 mi · 340
- ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL1.3 mi · 2,003
- NASSAU BOCES1.4 mi · 1,797
Frequently asked questions
About GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,034 students in grades 06-08.
Is GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 76% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 13% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by GARDEN CITY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.