MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in MANHASSET, New York, MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL is a reasonably sized middle-grades school, overseen by MANHASSET UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 541 students across grades 7 through 8.

MANHASSET UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 3,006 students. MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 34% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 13% of students at MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 70.3%; actual is 90.6%, +20.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

Nearest neighbor: MANHASSET SECONDARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 85.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 5%: 515 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 71% to 52%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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