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What's the most underrated thing about LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,260
Middle
DISTRICT 695 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361738001547
LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL
350 S WELLWOOD AVE, LINDENHURST, NY 11757 · (631) 867-3500 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,260 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.3:1
123 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
582 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 | 400 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 415 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 428 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 17 | 1% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL→LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 71.8% |
% 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
46.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL
LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (46.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,260 | 46.2% | 46.6% |
| J WATSON BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL KINGSTON | 936 | 45.6% | 45.4% |
| DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL CENTEREACH | 967 | 47.1% | 52.9% |
| VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MONTGOMERY | 945 | 39.9% | 61.1% |
| SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL CENTEREACH | 1,080 | 51.5% | 47.5% |
| WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL WASHINGTONVILLE | 884 | 40.0% | 52.3% |
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 LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #490 of 766 | #45 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #233 of 768 ▲ 18 | #28 of 66 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #440 of 768 ▲ 144 | #29 of 66 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,260 | #33 of 796 | #4 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #330 of 683 | #35 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.8% | #221 of 688 | #28 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.2% | #457 of 773 | #22 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #357 of 524 | #45 of 59 |
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
1,260
-55 (-4%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 900
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 1,260 | 122.9 | 10.3:1 | 46% (582) |
| 2023-24 | 1,293 | 120.6 | 10.7:1 | 47% (608) |
| 2022-23 | 1,284 | 108.4 | 11.8:1 | 44% (559) |
| 2020-21 | 1,315 | 109 | 12.1:1 | 37% (487) |
| 2017-18 | 1,376 | 107 | 12.9:1 | 37% (503) |
| 2015-16 | 1,328 | 113 | 11.8:1 | 36% (479) |
| 2010-11 | 1,619 | 126 | 12.8:1 | 16% (267) |
| 2000-01 | 1,822 | 115 | 15.8:1 | 12% (226) |
| 1990-91 | 900 | 61 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL
At 350 S WELLWOOD AVE in LINDENHURST, New York, LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a large middle school. It serves 1,260 students in grades 6 through 8. For comparison, middle schools in New York average about 531 students.
LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL is a school in LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The district has 8 schools and 5,560 students.
A majority of students at LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL, 55%, are White. Other reported shares: 34% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 4% Asian. Suffolk County's residents are about 66% White, 11 points above the school's share. LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL has a diversity index of 58%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 122.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL was 10.3:1. Across middle schools in New York, the average ratio is about 10.3:1. LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 46%.
Measured against New York public middle schools, LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL, the prediction is 58.0% and the result is 46.6%.
In the county around the school, Suffolk County, median household income is about $130,686, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. A total of 343 public schools operate in Suffolk County, serving about 222,439 students.
ALLEGHANY AVENUE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students dropped from 1,315 to 1,260 over 4 years. The school's ratio fell from 12.1:1 to 10.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,868 students
- WILLIAM RALL SCHOOLElementary · 539 students
- ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
- DANIEL STREET SCHOOLElementary · 495 students
- ALLEGHANY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 319 students
- WEST GATES AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 303 students
Other schools in LINDENHURST
- LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,868 students
- WILLIAM RALL SCHOOLElementary · 539 students
- ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
- DANIEL STREET SCHOOLElementary · 495 students
- ALLEGHANY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 319 students
- WEST GATES AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 303 students
Nearby schools
- ALLEGHANY AVENUE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 319
- WEST GATES AVENUE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 303
- ALBANY AVENUE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 498
- LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,868
- HARDING AVENUE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 278
- DANIEL STREET SCHOOL1.1 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,260 students in grades 06-08.
Is LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.3:1 (123 FTE teachers).
How diverse is LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 55% White, 34% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of LINDENHURST UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.