ROBERT M FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

ROBERT M FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the medium-sized junior highs in GLEN COVE, New York, overseen by GLEN COVE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 691 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 30% larger than typical.

GLEN COVE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,136 students; ROBERT M FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ROBERT M FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 17% White, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ROBERT M FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL has 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at ROBERT M FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROBERT M FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Nassau County) reports that median household earnings sit near $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), ROBERT M FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DEASY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROBERT M FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 61.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 722 students in 2018 compared to 691 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 30% to 17%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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