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What's the biggest difference between RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
793
Middle
DISTRICT 795 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362469003358
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL
600 HARRISON AVE, RIVERHEAD, NY 11901 · (631) 369-6759 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL793 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of New York public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
11.9:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
414 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 7 | 375 | 47% |
| Grade 8 | 411 | 52% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL→RIVERHEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within RIVERHEAD CENTRAL 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
26.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
98.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 98 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.0% | 98.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 97.0% |
% 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
51.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% 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 RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (51.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 793 | 52.2% | 51.5% |
| PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIVERHEAD | 797 | 50.3% | 25.9% |
| SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL NEWBURGH | 782 | 52.8% | 29.1% |
| SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH TARRYTOWN | 617 | 55.3% | 56.0% |
| ANNE M DORNER MIDDLE SCHOOL OSSINING | 1,032 | 46.6% | 46.4% |
| 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 RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.5% | #403 of 766 | #34 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 98.0% | #63 of 768 ▲ 5 | #9 of 66 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #725 of 768 ▼ 32 | #61 of 66 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 793 | #163 of 796 | #27 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #547 of 683 | #57 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.3% | #303 of 688 | #37 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.2% | #395 of 773 | #15 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #391 of 524 | #48 of 59 |
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
793
-76 (-9%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 840
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 793 | 66.5 | 11.9:1 | 52% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 789 | 72.1 | 10.9:1 | 50% (394) |
| 2022-23 | 827 | 70 | 11.8:1 | 57% (469) |
| 2020-21 | 869 | 59 | 14.7:1 | 54% (467) |
| 2017-18 | 849 | 55 | 15.4:1 | 52% (438) |
| 2015-16 | 781 | 50 | 15.6:1 | 43% (338) |
| 2010-11 | 705 | 46 | 15.3:1 | 47% (332) |
| 2000-01 | 977 | 71 | 13.8:1 | 30% (293) |
| 1990-91 | 840 | 58 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school located in RIVERHEAD, New York. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 793 students on the rolls. Middle schools in New York average about 531 students, which makes this school 49% bigger than average.
District-wide, RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 8 schools and 5,547 students.
The largest group at RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 64%. The remaining students are 24% White, 9% Black, and 2% multiracial. Among people living in Suffolk County, the Hispanic share is about 23%. The diversity index for RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is 52%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 66.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 11.9:1. Across middle schools in New York, the average ratio is 10.3:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 52%. The average for public schools in Suffolk County is 39%.
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 42% of New York public middle schools.
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 51.5% is 4.3 points below the 55.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
For the population of Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Across Suffolk County, 343 public schools serve about 222,439 students.
RIVERHEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Federal data place RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL in the Suburb: Small locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 76 students, from 869 to 793. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 14.7:1 to 11.9:1.
On allk12, people connected to RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- RIVERHEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,927 students
- PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMiddle · 797 students
- PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 656 students
- RILEY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 520 students
- AQUEBOGUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 458 students
- ROANOKE AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 395 students
Other schools in RIVERHEAD
- RIVERHEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,927 students
- PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMiddle · 797 students
- PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 656 students
- ROANOKE AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 395 students
- SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICEHigh · 1 students
Nearby schools
- RIVERHEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,927
- PULASKI STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 797
- ROANOKE AVENUE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 395
- SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE0.8 mi · 1
- PHILLIPS AVENUE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 656
- AQUEBOGUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 458
Frequently asked questions
About RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 793 students in grades 06-08.
Is RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 24% White, 64% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
RIVERHEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by RIVERHEAD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.