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How has GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
728
Middle
DISTRICT 780 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361251001015
GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL
77 POLO RD, GREAT NECK, NY 11023 · (516) 441-4500 · Nassau County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL728 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
7.3:1
99 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
180 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 | 235 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 236 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 245 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 12 | 2% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
75.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
85.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 85.3% |
| 2023-24 | 74.0% | 84.8% |
% 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
80.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL
GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (80.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 728 | 24.7% | 80.1% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL BETHPAGE | 759 | 26.1% | 71.5% |
| ROSLYN MIDDLE SCHOOL ROSLYN HEIGHTS | 802 | 16.6% | 79.9% |
| ROBERT CUSHMAN MURPHY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STONY BROOK | 655 | 21.2% | 71.5% |
| TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL EAST AMHERST | 912 | 16.3% | 82.4% |
| IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 614 | 18.9% | 72.9% |
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 GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #53 of 766 | #11 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.3% | #144 of 768 no change | #24 of 52 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #75 of 768 ▼ 9 | #12 of 52 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 728 | #193 of 796 | #27 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.3:1 | #12 of 683 | #2 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #223 of 688 | #19 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.7% | #666 of 773 | #26 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.0% | #345 of 524 | #12 of 30 |
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
728
-126 (-15%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 596
Student : Teacher
7.3:1
was 8.8:1
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 | 728 | 99.1 | 7.3:1 | 25% (180) |
| 2023-24 | 729 | 99.6 | 7.3:1 | 21% (155) |
| 2022-23 | 744 | 99.5 | 7.5:1 | 23% (170) |
| 2020-21 | 854 | 97 | 8.8:1 | 20% (172) |
| 2017-18 | 800 | 76.7 | 10.4:1 | 15% (123) |
| 2015-16 | 740 | 74 | 10.0:1 | 14% (102) |
| 2010-11 | 726 | 68 | 10.7:1 | 14% (103) |
| 2000-01 | 629 | 57 | 11.0:1 | 12% (76) |
| 1990-91 | 596 | 65 | 9.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL
GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL, located in GREAT NECK, New York, is a mid-sized middle school. Enrollment totals 728 students across grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in New York enroll around 531, and this school is 37% larger than that mark.
The district, GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, has 6,798 students enrolled across 10 schools.
Of every 100 students at GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 58 are White. The rest of enrollment is 27% Asian, 12% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Among Nassau County residents, the White share is about 57%. The diversity index for GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
For every teacher at GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are about 7.3 students; the school has 99.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in New York is 10.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 180 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 25% of enrollment.
On the allk12 Grade, GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 92% of New York public middle schools.
GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 80.1% and a predicted 65.9%.
The school is in Nassau County, where the median household earns about $146,202 a year, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Nassau County, 315 public schools serve about 200,775 students.
GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is 6th among 8 schools close by.
GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 126 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio was 8.8:1 in 2020-21 and 7.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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 GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,155 students
- GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 832 students
- LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 772 students
- E M BAKER SCHOOLElementary · 651 students
- SADDLE ROCK SCHOOLElementary · 519 students
Other schools in GREAT NECK
- GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,155 students
- GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 832 students
- LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 772 students
- E M BAKER SCHOOLElementary · 651 students
- SADDLE ROCK SCHOOLElementary · 519 students
Nearby schools
- GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,155
- VILLAGE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 48
- SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL0.7 mi · 519
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 427
- E M BAKER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 651
- MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 541
Frequently asked questions
About GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 728 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 99 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.3:1.
What is the student diversity at GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 58% White, 12% Hispanic, 1% Black, 27% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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