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What advice would you give to incoming students at HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
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Enrollment
1,094
Middle
DISTRICT 852 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361428001179
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL
7 HILLDALE DR, ALBERTSON, NY 11507 · (516) 305-8600 · Nassau County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,094 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of New York public middle schools
- A+Test 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
11.4:1
96 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
234 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 | 329 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 386 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 365 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 14 | 1% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL→HERRICKS HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
83.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
95.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 95 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 95.2% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 94.4% |
% 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
84.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% 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%.
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 HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (84.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,094 | 21.4% | 84.3% |
| GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL GREAT NECK | 832 | 22.5% | 90.2% |
| JERICHO MIDDLE SCHOOL JERICHO | 825 | 18.4% | 87.3% |
| JHS 67 LOUIS PASTEUR LITTLE NECK | 999 | 44.0% | 84.5% |
| H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL SYOSSET | 951 | 15.8% | 80.8% |
| SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL SYOSSET | 802 | 15.7% | 87.1% |
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 HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.3% | #29 of 766 | #7 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 95.2% | #81 of 768 ▼ 1 | #12 of 52 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #30 of 768 ▼ 4 | #4 of 52 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,094 | #55 of 796 | #6 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #486 of 683 | #41 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.8% | #491 of 688 | #48 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.4% | #688 of 773 | #29 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.8% | #35 of 168 | #1 of 21 |
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
1,094
+72 (+7%) vs 2020
+34% since 1990-91, when it was 817
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 1,094 | 96.3 | 11.4:1 | 21% (234) |
| 2023-24 | 1,125 | 95.7 | 11.8:1 | 18% (201) |
| 2022-23 | 1,079 | 95.1 | 11.3:1 | 17% (184) |
| 2020-21 | 1,022 | 91 | 11.2:1 | 14% (143) |
| 2017-18 | 937 | 82.4 | 11.4:1 | 12% (116) |
| 2015-16 | 920 | 73 | 12.6:1 | 9% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 989 | 84 | 11.8:1 | 5% (52) |
| 2000-01 | 966 | 73 | 13.2:1 | 2% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 817 | 68 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle-grades school. Its address is in ALBERTSON, New York. It covers grades 6 through 8, with a total enrollment of 1,094 students. Enrollment is 106% higher than the average for middle schools in New York, which is about 531.
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a school in HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The district has 5 schools and 4,259 students.
Roughly 78% of students at HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL are Asian. Beyond that, enrollment is 16% White and 4% Hispanic. The Asian share of the county population is lower, at 12%. Pick two students at random and there is a 37% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL's 96.3 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 11.4:1. On average, middle schools in New York have 10.3:1, compared with 11.4:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 21%. The 31% average for public schools in Nassau County is 10 points higher.
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 95% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 84.3%; the prediction is 67.1%.
Among Nassau County residents, the median household income is $146,202, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Besides HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL, Nassau County has 314 other public schools.
The closest other public school is SEARINGTOWN SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th of 7 on proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL as Suburb: Large.
The school enrolled 1,094 students in 2024-25, 72 more than the 1,022 it had in 2020-21.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HERRICKS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,535 students
- DENTON AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 599 students
- SEARINGTOWN SCHOOLElementary · 549 students
- CENTER STREET SCHOOLElementary · 482 students
Other schools in ALBERTSON
- SEARINGTOWN SCHOOLElementary · 549 students
- MEADOW DRIVE SCHOOLElementary · 309 students
Nearby schools
- SEARINGTOWN SCHOOL0.4 mi · 549
- HERRICKS HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,535
- MEADOW DRIVE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 309
- CENTER STREET SCHOOL1.0 mi · 482
- SHELTER ROCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 631
- DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 599
Frequently asked questions
About HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,094 students in grades 06-08.
Is HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 96 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1.
What is the student diversity at HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 16% White, 4% Hispanic, 0% Black, 78% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.