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What's the biggest difference between RALPH REED SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
1,192
Middle
DISTRICT 972 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360687000478
RALPH REED SCHOOL
200 HALF MILE RD, CENTRAL ISLIP, NY 11722 · (631) 348-5066 · Suffolk County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,192 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of New York public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.8:1
86 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
738 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 7 | 583 | 49% |
| Grade 8 | 600 | 50% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 1% |
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
RALPH REED SCHOOL→CENTRAL ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within CENTRAL ISLIP 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
24.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
33.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 33.3% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 32.8% |
% 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
33.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 RALPH REED SCHOOL
RALPH REED SCHOOL's state test result (33.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RALPH REED SCHOOL this school | 1,192 | 61.9% | 33.7% |
| COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL COPIAGUE | 1,081 | 58.1% | 41.5% |
| WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL WESTBURY | 945 | 63.9% | 41.9% |
| CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL FREEPORT | 882 | 67.6% | 36.1% |
| FIELDSTONE MIDDLE SCHOOL THIELLS | 1,207 | 57.4% | 45.4% |
| JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOL FREEPORT | 924 | 70.8% | 46.5% |
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 RALPH REED SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #680 of 766 | #63 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #681 of 768 no change | #64 of 66 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #733 of 768 ▼ 67 | #62 of 66 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,192 | #43 of 796 | #6 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #639 of 683 | #63 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.5% | #514 of 688 | #59 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.9% | #334 of 773 | #7 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +44.5% | #11 of 168 | #1 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
1,192
+27 (+2%) vs 2020
+63% since 1990-91, when it was 731
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 1,192 | 86.1 | 13.8:1 | 62% (738) |
| 2023-24 | 1,168 | 87.6 | 13.3:1 | 67% (787) |
| 2022-23 | 1,149 | 82.8 | 13.9:1 | 81% (926) |
| 2020-21 | 1,165 | 81 | 14.4:1 | 78% (910) |
| 2017-18 | 825 | 55 | 15.0:1 | 84% (690) |
| 2015-16 | 758 | 54 | 14.0:1 | 77% (581) |
| 2010-11 | 905 | 59 | 15.3:1 | 66% (596) |
| 2000-01 | 998 | 80 | 12.5:1 | 53% (532) |
| 1990-91 | 731 | 64 | 11.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RALPH REED SCHOOL.
About RALPH REED SCHOOL
RALPH REED SCHOOL is a large middle school with its address in CENTRAL ISLIP, New York. It is open to students in grades 7 through 8 and enrolls 1,192 students. By comparison, middle schools in New York enroll about 531 students on average.
The district for RALPH REED SCHOOL is CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 8 schools and 7,773 students.
Hispanic students are 79% of those enrolled at RALPH REED SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 15% Black and 3% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Suffolk County's population at about 23%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 35%.
RALPH REED SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1, with 86.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in New York, 10.3:1, is lower. Roughly 62% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Suffolk County is 39%.
On the allk12 Grade, RALPH REED SCHOOL lands at F, ahead of 4% of New York public middle schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, RALPH REED SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 33.7%; the prediction is 52.2%.
For the population of Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Suffolk County, 343 public schools serve about 222,439 students.
CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of RALPH REED SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 39.2%; RALPH REED SCHOOL's is 33.7%, ranking 4th of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 1,165 students in 2020-21 and 1,192 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
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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 CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,615 students
- CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 997 students
- ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOLElementary · 821 students
- FRANCIS J O'NEILL SCHOOLElementary · 600 students
- MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOLElementary · 567 students
- ANTHONY ALFANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
Other schools in CENTRAL ISLIP
- CENTRAL ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,615 students
- CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 997 students
- FRANCIS J O'NEILL SCHOOLElementary · 600 students
- MARGUERITE L MULVEY SCHOOLElementary · 567 students
- ANTHONY ALFANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
- CORDELLO AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 490 students
Nearby schools
- CHARLES A MULLIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 997
- FRANCIS J O'NEILL SCHOOL0.7 mi · 600
- CENTRAL ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 2,615
- ANTHONY ALFANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 491
- SOUTH SHORE CHARTER SCHOOL0.9 mi · 268
- ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL0.9 mi · 821
Frequently asked questions
About RALPH REED SCHOOLHow large is RALPH REED SCHOOL?
RALPH REED SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,192 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does RALPH REED SCHOOL serve?
RALPH REED SCHOOL serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at RALPH REED SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at RALPH REED SCHOOL is approximately 13.8:1 (86 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at RALPH REED SCHOOL?
Student demographics at RALPH REED SCHOOL are roughly 3% White, 79% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is RALPH REED SCHOOL public or private?
RALPH REED SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by CENTRAL ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.