JOSEPH A EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

JOSEPH An EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in ROCKY POINT, New York, operated by ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 542 students spanning grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% larger than the state mean of about 443.

Within ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 2,580 students, JOSEPH An EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOSEPH An EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL lists that 71% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 23% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, JOSEPH An EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 62.3%; this one comes in at 36.8%, -25.5 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Suffolk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. JOSEPH An EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

The closest other public school is ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOSEPH An EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOSEPH An EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 64.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOSEPH An EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has decreased 22%, going from 693 students in 2018 to 542 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 14% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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