GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL

GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack junior highs in NESCONSET, New York, one of the schools within SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 750 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 41% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Across the 12 schools in SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (7,437 students total), GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 70%. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 70.5%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) logs that median household income runs about $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is TACKAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 61.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 977 (now 750). The White share of enrollment contracted from 84% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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