NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in GLEN HEAD, New York, NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school, run under NORTH SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 642 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 21% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

NORTH SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,544 students. NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 13% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 14% of students at NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

With demographic context factored in, NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.0%; this one delivers 86.4%.

In the broader community, Nassau County reports that median household income runs about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NORTH SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 72.6%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTH SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL has grew 4%, going from 620 students in 2018 to 642 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 81% to 68% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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