ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in ISLIP, New York, ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school, part of ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 601 students across grades 6 through 8.

ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,652 students; ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 40% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL has 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.6%, the actual is 44.6%, a residual of -14.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

Nearest neighbor: ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 55.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 670 students in 2018 compared to 601 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 63% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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