1
Does MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL have enough mental health and stress support?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
653
Middle
DISTRICT 562 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MINEOLA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361950001781
MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL
200 EMORY RD, MINEOLA, NY 11501 · (516) 237-2500 · Nassau County
GRADES 05–07MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL653 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 53% of New York public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
10.5:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
188 students
DISTRICT 29% · 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 5 | 186 | 28% |
| Grade 6 | 239 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 214 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 14 | 2% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL→MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within MINEOLA 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
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
66.7%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 66.7% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 61.0% |
% 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
59.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL
MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (59.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 653 | 28.8% | 59.1% |
| FELIX FESTA CHARACTER MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST NYACK | 612 | 25.2% | 56.1% |
| FELIX FESTA ACHIEVEMENT MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST NYACK | 609 | 22.7% | 56.0% |
| A MACARTHUR BARR MIDDLE SCHOOL NANUET | 635 | 35.0% | 62.7% |
| RONKONKOMA MIDDLE SCHOOL RONKONKOMA | 641 | 27.1% | 56.7% |
| FELIX FESTA DETERMINATION MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST NYACK | 679 | 22.7% | 71.7% |
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 MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.1% | #274 of 766 | #37 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.7% | #301 of 768 ▲ 43 | #39 of 52 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #216 of 768 ▲ 93 | #26 of 52 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 653 | #232 of 796 | #33 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #363 of 683 | #28 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.7% | #113 of 688 | #7 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.8% | #623 of 773 | #20 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.5% | #460 of 524 | #23 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
653
+46 (+8%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 561
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 653 | 62.4 | 10.5:1 | 29% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 656 | 54.6 | 12.0:1 | 29% (187) |
| 2022-23 | 636 | 53 | 12.0:1 | 32% (201) |
| 2020-21 | 607 | 61 | 9.9:1 | 35% (211) |
| 2017-18 | 677 | 55 | 12.3:1 | 33% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 620 | 50 | 12.4:1 | 27% (168) |
| 2010-11 | 580 | 57 | 10.2:1 | 18% (105) |
| 2000-01 | 606 | 61 | 9.9:1 | 17% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 561 | 48 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL
MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the public schools in MINEOLA, New York. It is a medium-sized middle-grades school. The student body numbers 653 students, from grades 5 through 7. An average school in this group (middle schools in New York) has about 531 students.
The 5 schools of MINEOLA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, including MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL, enroll 2,811 students.
At MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL, the largest share of students is White, at 43%. The remaining shares are 36% Hispanic, 15% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.5:1 at MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 62.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 29%. For comparison, public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
allk12 grades MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL a B-. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 64.4%. MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 59.1%, 5.3 points below that line.
According to the American Community Survey, in Nassau County, the median household income is $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in the county.
JACKSON AVENUE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th 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.
Federal data show an 8% enrollment gain, from 607 in 2020-21 to 653 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 MINEOLA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,090 students
- JACKSON AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 436 students
- HAMPTON STREET SCHOOLElementary · 323 students
- MEADOW DRIVE SCHOOLElementary · 309 students
Other schools in MINEOLA
- JACKSON AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 436 students
- HAMPTON STREET SCHOOLElementary · 323 students
Other Mineola Middle schools
One other US public school is named Mineola Middle. MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Mineola Middle SchoolMINEOLA, TX · 388 students
Nearby schools
- JACKSON AVENUE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 436
- MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,090
- GARDEN CITY HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,096
- HAMPTON STREET SCHOOL0.9 mi · 323
- GARDEN CITY PARK SCHOOL1.0 mi · 310
- CENTER STREET SCHOOL1.1 mi · 482
Frequently asked questions
About MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 653 students in grades 05-07.
What grades does MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 05-07.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.5:1 (62 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 43% White, 36% Hispanic, 1% Black, 15% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by MINEOLA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.