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Enrollment
466
Middle
DISTRICT 579 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362706005746
NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
479 EDGEWOOD AVE, SAINT JAMES, NY 11780 · (631) 382-5105 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL466 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 71% of New York public middle schools
- A-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.
- ·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
10.0:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
70 students
DISTRICT 17% · 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 | 169 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 143 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 146 | 31% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 2% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
83.1%
NY avg 57.4% . -16.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 17 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 83.1% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
68.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (68.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 466 | 15.0% | 68.9% |
| SEAFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL SEAFORD | 522 | 12.5% | 73.5% |
| JAMES WILSON YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL BAYPORT | 399 | 17.3% | 67.3% |
| PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT SCHOOL CROTON ON HUDSON | 463 | 12.7% | 77.0% |
| WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL KINGS PARK | 588 | 14.8% | 70.9% |
| WESTLAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL THORNWOOD | 477 | 10.9% | 69.7% |
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 NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.9% | #155 of 766 | #13 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.1% | #160 of 768 ▼ 115 | #16 of 66 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #192 of 768 ▲ 13 | #15 of 66 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 466 | #382 of 796 | #52 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #295 of 683 | #27 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.3% | #531 of 688 | #61 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.0% | #731 of 773 | #60 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.5% | #108 of 524 | #7 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
466
-61 (-12%) vs 2020
-44% since 2010-11, when it was 832
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 466 | 46.4 | 10.0:1 | 15% (70) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 49.5 | 9.2:1 | 11% (50) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 54.1 | 8.7:1 | 10% (45) |
| 2020-21 | 527 | 51 | 10.3:1 | 8% (40) |
| 2017-18 | 609 | 47.6 | 12.8:1 | 9% (56) |
| 2015-16 | 733 | 52 | 14.1:1 | 6% (47) |
| 2010-11 | 832 | 63 | 13.2:1 | 6% (46) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Federal records list NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL as a middle-grades school in SAINT JAMES, New York. The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 466 students.
The 12 schools of SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, including NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, enroll 7,437 students.
A large majority of enrollment at NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is White, at 82%. Beyond that, enrollment is 10% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. The White share of the county population is lower, at 66%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 32%.
Based on 46.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL has a ratio of 10.0:1. The ratio is within a point of the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Income data for the school show 15% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County, the school's rate is lower.
On the allk12 Grade, NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at B+, ahead of 71% of New York public middle schools.
On BeatsExpectations, NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
The school's county is Suffolk County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Suffolk County with 342 other public schools.
Among nearby public schools, SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST is closest at about 0.7 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL places 3rd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 466, down from 527 in 2020-21.
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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 SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,403 students
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL-WESTHigh · 1,158 students
- GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 750 students
- ACCOMPSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- ACCOMPSETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 522 students
- SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 517 students
Other schools in SAINT JAMES
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,403 students
- SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 461 students
Nearby schools
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST0.7 mi · 1,403
- DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 350
- SAINT JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 461
- SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 517
- MILLS POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 338
- GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 750
Frequently asked questions
About NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 466 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.0:1 (46 FTE teachers).
How diverse is NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 82% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
NESAQUAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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