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What's one thing OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
545
Middle
DISTRICT 546 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362247003164
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL
109 OREGON AVE, MEDFORD, NY 11763 · (631) 687-6800 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL545 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of New York public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
11.1:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
284 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 173 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 186 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 180 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL→PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD 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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
53.9%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 53.9% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 44.1% |
% 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
43.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (43.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 545 | 52.1% | 43.8% |
| SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOL PATCHOGUE | 513 | 52.8% | 41.2% |
| J TAYLOR FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL HUNTINGTON | 579 | 54.1% | 48.9% |
| JACK ABRAMS STEM MAGNET SCHOOL HUNTINGTON STATION | 438 | 44.3% | 49.7% |
| ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL ISLIP | 601 | 44.4% | 44.6% |
| JAMES A FARLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STONY POINT | 533 | 49.5% | 43.1% |
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 OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #554 of 766 | #50 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #454 of 768 ▲ 102 | #45 of 66 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #506 of 768 ▲ 63 | #34 of 66 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 545 | #327 of 796 | #48 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #454 of 683 | #47 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.6% | #168 of 688 | #19 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.1% | #398 of 773 | #16 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.3% | #82 of 168 | #4 of 7 |
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
545
-41 (-7%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 800
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.5:1
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 | 545 | 49.1 | 11.1:1 | 52% (284) |
| 2023-24 | 562 | 49.7 | 11.3:1 | 55% (309) |
| 2022-23 | 592 | 56.4 | 10.5:1 | 54% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 586 | 51 | 11.5:1 | 54% (319) |
| 2017-18 | 508 | 27.3 | 18.6:1 | 45% (228) |
| 2015-16 | 512 | 25 | 20.5:1 | 45% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 591 | 35 | 16.9:1 | 17% (99) |
| 2000-01 | 893 | 52 | 17.2:1 | 19% (170) |
| 1990-91 | 800 | 55 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle school for students in MEDFORD, New York. The school counts 545 students across grades 6 through 8.
A total of 11 schools make up PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 7,605 students enrolled.
Hispanic students form the largest group at OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL, 46% of enrollment. Other groups include 41% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. By comparison, Suffolk County residents are about 23% Hispanic. By the diversity index, OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 62%.
Teachers at OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL total 49.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.1:1. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. The school counts 284 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 52%. That is 13 points above the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County.
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 18% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL is 12.0 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Suffolk County has about 1,530,146 residents, and median household income is about $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Federal data list 343 public schools in Suffolk County, with a combined enrollment of about 222,439.
TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL places 4th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 586 in 2020-21 and 545 in 2024-25, a decrease of 41 students.
Posts about school safety, transportation, and start times are welcome on this page. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,487 students
- EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 596 students
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 579 students
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
- MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
Other schools in MEDFORD
- PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,487 students
- EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
Other Oregon Middle schools
One other US public school is named Oregon Middle. OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Oregon MiddleOregon, WI · 613 students
Nearby schools
- TREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 433
- PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,487
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 515
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 579
- EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES1.8 mi · 2,043
- EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 680
Frequently asked questions
About OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 545 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 11.1:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 41% White, 46% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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