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OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL
Set in GREENLAWN, New York, OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a reasonably sized junior high, operated by HARBORFIELDS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 627 students across grades 6 through 8.
Across the 4 schools in HARBORFIELDS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,773 students total), OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Suffolk County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.
After controlling for student poverty, OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.3%, the actual is 69.6%, a residual of +1.3 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
WASHINGTON DRIVE PRIMARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 59.8%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 14%, going from 725 students in 2018 to 627 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 11% to 18%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.
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