JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a heavily attended 6-8 campus in LEVITTOWN, New York, JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL instructs 899 students from grades 6 through 8, part of LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 69% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Within LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 10 schools and 7,062 students, JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 65%. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic, 12% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.3%, the actual is 66.8%, a residual of +0.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Nassau County reports that median household income runs about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 900 students in 2018 to 899 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 77% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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