JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL

JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small middle school in BAYPORT, New York, part of BAYPORT-BLUE POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school works with 399 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 531.

Within BAYPORT-BLUE POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 1,831 students, JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Beyond that, the school reports 11% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.6:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 17% of students at JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.6%; this one delivers 67.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) records that median household earnings sit near $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

SYLVAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 61.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 26% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 399). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 90% to 81%. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

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