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Enrollment
899
Middle
DISTRICT 832 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361716001524
JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL
3359 OLD JERUSALEM RD, LEVITTOWN, NY 11756 · (516) 434-7354 · Nassau County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL899 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% 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.
- BBeats 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
10.8:1
83 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
213 students
DISTRICT 29% · 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 | 286 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 309 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 300 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
80.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 80.2% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 79.9% |
% 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
66.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL
JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (66.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 899 | 23.7% | 66.8% |
| HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL HAUPPAUGE | 725 | 22.3% | 66.2% |
| LOUIS M KLEIN MIDDLE SCHOOL HARRISON | 923 | 20.6% | 71.1% |
| GRAND AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL BELLMORE | 916 | 17.0% | 73.7% |
| KODA MIDDLE SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 765 | 26.9% | 77.7% |
| ACADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 761 | 25.2% | 77.9% |
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 JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #177 of 766 | #29 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #189 of 768 ▼ 11 | #29 of 52 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #315 of 768 ▲ 22 | #34 of 52 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 899 | #112 of 796 | #15 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #430 of 683 | #34 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #305 of 688 | #29 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.7% | #675 of 773 | #27 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.1% | #524 of 524 | #30 of 30 |
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
899
-48 (-5%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 768
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.0:1
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 | 899 | 83.1 | 10.8:1 | 24% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 938 | 85.7 | 10.9:1 | 16% (153) |
| 2022-23 | 947 | 83.2 | 11.4:1 | 16% (147) |
| 2020-21 | 947 | 86 | 11.0:1 | 17% (165) |
| 2017-18 | 900 | 76 | 11.8:1 | 15% (132) |
| 2015-16 | 930 | 75 | 12.4:1 | 15% (138) |
| 2010-11 | 995 | 87 | 11.4:1 | 9% (85) |
| 2000-01 | 980 | 68 | 14.4:1 | 5% (52) |
| 1990-91 | 768 | 57 | 13.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL
JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public middle school run by LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in LEVITTOWN, New York. The school counts 899 students across grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 69% above the 531 average for middle schools in New York.
LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL. It has 10 schools and 7,062 students.
JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment is 65% White. Other groups include 19% Hispanic and 12% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County residents are about 57% White. By the diversity index, JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 52%.
Teachers at JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL total 83.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.8:1. Middle schools in New York average about 10.3:1, a similar figure. The school counts 213 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 24%.
Measured against New York public middle schools, JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Nassau County has about 1,389,591 residents, and median household income is about $146,202, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Federal data list 315 public schools in Nassau County, with a combined enrollment of about 200,775.
The school nearest to JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL is GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 70.3%; JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL's is 66.8%, ranking 5th of 9.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 947 in 2020-21 and 899 in 2024-25, a decrease of 48 students.
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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 LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,295 students
- DIVISION AVENUE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,044 students
- WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- EAST BROADWAY SCHOOLElementary · 662 students
- ABBEY LANE SCHOOLElementary · 607 students
- NORTHSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 560 students
Other schools in LEVITTOWN
- GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,295 students
- DIVISION AVENUE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,044 students
- WISDOM LANE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- ISLAND TREES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 725 students
- ISLAND TREES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 701 students
- ABBEY LANE SCHOOLElementary · 607 students
Nearby schools
- GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,295
- GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 542
- EAST BROADWAY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 662
- LEE ROAD SCHOOL0.9 mi · 312
- WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 645
- WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 826
Frequently asked questions
About JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 899 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.8:1 (83 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 65% White, 19% Hispanic, 2% Black, 12% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.