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HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, a reasonably sized middle-grades school in HAUPPAUGE, New York, run under HAUPPAUGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 725 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 37% above the state mean of about 531.
Across the 5 schools in HAUPPAUGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,112 students total), HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 18% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is south of typical.
After controlling for student poverty, HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 66.2%, a residual of -0.6 points.
Around the school, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).
The closest other public school is HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.3%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 17%, going from 878 students in 2018 to 725 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 76% to 65%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.
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