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What's the one class at LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
664
Middle
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LONG BEACH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361773001598
LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL
239 LIDO BLVD, LONG BEACH, NY 11561 · (516) 897-2166 · Nassau County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL664 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
9.0:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
175 students
DISTRICT 24% · 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 | 234 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 196 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 231 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL→LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within LONG BEACH CITY 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
51.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
78.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -20.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 20 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 78.5% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 99.0% |
% 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
62.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL
LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (62.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 664 | 26.4% | 62.5% |
| C J HOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL GOSHEN | 646 | 28.8% | 53.5% |
| MINISINK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 806 | 26.7% | 59.3% |
| EAST ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL ISLIP TERRACE | 758 | 28.9% | 63.7% |
| VAN WYCK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 878 | 26.0% | 61.2% |
| SCHOOL 9M-OCEANSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL OCEANSIDE | 801 | 21.0% | 69.6% |
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 LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #228 of 766 | #35 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.5% | #203 of 768 ▼ 143 | #31 of 52 ▼ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #326 of 768 ▼ 25 | #38 of 52 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 664 | #221 of 796 | #30 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.0:1 | #118 of 683 | #12 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #263 of 688 | #23 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.4% | #649 of 773 | #22 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.2% | #233 of 524 | #9 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
664
-129 (-16%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 890
Student : Teacher
9.0:1
was 9.4:1
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 | 664 | 73.9 | 9.0:1 | 26% (175) |
| 2023-24 | 668 | 80.7 | 8.3:1 | 18% (120) |
| 2022-23 | 721 | 82.8 | 8.7:1 | 25% (181) |
| 2020-21 | 793 | 84 | 9.4:1 | 31% (246) |
| 2017-18 | 774 | 75.8 | 10.2:1 | 37% (285) |
| 2015-16 | 755 | 71 | 10.6:1 | 32% (244) |
| 2010-11 | 901 | 91 | 9.9:1 | 27% (246) |
| 2000-01 | 1,052 | 74 | 14.2:1 | 19% (196) |
| 1990-91 | 890 | 79 | 11.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL
LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL is the name of a mid-sized middle-grades school in LONG BEACH, New York. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 664 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 25% bigger than the 531-student average for middle schools in New York.
The 6 schools of LONG BEACH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, including LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL, enroll 3,458 students.
Federal enrollment data show LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL is 62% White. Other groups make up 24% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. A diversity index of 55% means there is a 55% chance two randomly chosen students at LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
A staff of 73.9 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 9.0:1. Across middle schools in New York, the average ratio is 10.3:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 26%.
LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 61% of New York public middle schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 62.5%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 65.3%.
In the wider Nassau County area, the median household earns about $146,202 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Nassau County with 314 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, LIDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL is 5th among 9 schools close by.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment decreased by 16% across 4 years, from 793 in 2020-21 to 664 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 LONG BEACH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,253 students
- LIDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 468 students
- LINDELL BOULEVARD SCHOOLElementary · 462 students
- WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 340 students
- EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 271 students
Other schools in LONG BEACH
- LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,253 students
- LIDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 468 students
- LINDELL BOULEVARD SCHOOLElementary · 462 students
- WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 340 students
- EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 271 students
Other Long Beach Middle schools
One other US public school is named Long Beach Middle. LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Long Beach Middle SchoolLong Beach, MS · 475 students
Nearby schools
- LIDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 468
- LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,253
- EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 271
- ISLAND PARK LINCOLN ORENS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 264
- FRANCIS X HEGARTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 451
- SCHOOL 9E-BOARDMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 333
Frequently asked questions
About LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 664 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 74 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 62% White, 24% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LONG BEACH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.