NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a sizable junior high in BRENTWOOD, New York, NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL educates 1,051 students from grades 6 through 8, run under BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 98% above typical.

BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 17,844 students; NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL records 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.7%; this one delivers 38.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) records that median household earnings sit near $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CAMPUS, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,151 (now 1,051). Hispanic enrollment moved from 87% to 92% across the same window.

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