PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized 6-8 campus in BETHPAGE, New York, part of PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 661 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

Within PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,959 students, PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.4%; this one delivers 64.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Nassau County shows median household earnings sit near $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

CENTRAL BOULEVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 61.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 684 students in 2018 compared to 661 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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