GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL

As an average-sized intermediate school in GREAT NECK, New York, GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL instructs 728 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 37% bigger than typical.

GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,798 students. GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 27% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.3:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.9%, the actual is 80.1%, a residual of +14.2 points.

In the area at large, Nassau County reports that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 85.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 800 students in 2018 compared to 728 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 in 2025.

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