ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL

ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL, a roomy middle-grades school in NORTH BABYLON, New York, part of NORTH BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 1,022 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 92% above typical.

Across the 7 schools in NORTH BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,603 students total), ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 25% Black, 24% White, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.0%; this one delivers 42.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

The closest other public school is WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 1,082 students in 2018 compared to 1,022 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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