GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL

GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the heavily attended middle-grades schools in GREAT NECK, New York, run under GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 832 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 57% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 10 schools in GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (6,798 students total), GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL records that Asian students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school shows 10% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 22% of students at GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 66.7%; actual is 90.2%, +23.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 82.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL has rose 7%, going from 781 students in 2018 to 832 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 26% to 10% over that span.

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