LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a cozy 6-8 campus in LOCUST VALLEY, New York, run under LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 427 students in grades 6 through 9.

Within LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 1,794 students, LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest consists of 22% Hispanic, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.3%, the actual is 81.6%, a residual of +14.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Nassau County reports that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 63.2%.

LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 492 students in 2018 compared to 427 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 76% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.