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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
613
Middle
DISTRICT 645 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362484005420
ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL
76 ROCKY PT-YAPHANK RD, ROCKY POINT, NY 11778 · (631) 849-7301 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL613 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 27% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
11.4:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
214 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 193 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 198 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 215 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 1% |
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL→ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ROCKY POINT 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
34.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
46.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -9.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 46.3% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
48.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL
ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (48.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 613 | 34.9% | 48.8% |
| ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL VALATIE | 647 | 38.3% | 61.0% |
| DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 551 | 32.8% | 67.3% |
| SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 537 | 31.5% | 44.4% |
| EAST ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL ISLIP TERRACE | 758 | 28.9% | 63.7% |
| FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL FREDONIA | 453 | 41.3% | 60.9% |
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 ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #451 of 766 | #42 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #563 of 768 ▼ 158 | #56 of 66 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #638 of 768 ▲ 31 | #52 of 66 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 613 | #271 of 796 | #38 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #500 of 683 | #53 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.1% | #427 of 688 | #47 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.9% | #576 of 773 | #35 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.1% | #198 of 524 | #23 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
613
-69 (-10%) vs 2020
-25% since 2010-11, when it was 820
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 613 | 53.6 | 11.4:1 | 35% (214) |
| 2023-24 | 634 | 56.2 | 11.3:1 | 37% (236) |
| 2022-23 | 638 | 54.5 | 11.7:1 | 36% (230) |
| 2020-21 | 682 | 55 | 12.4:1 | 34% (231) |
| 2017-18 | 731 | 52 | 14.1:1 | 31% (225) |
| 2015-16 | 766 | 50 | 15.3:1 | 30% (232) |
| 2010-11 | 820 | 52 | 15.8:1 | 19% (154) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL
As a medium-sized middle school, ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students in ROCKY POINT, New York. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 613 students.
The 4 schools of ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, including ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL, enroll 2,580 students.
White students account for 72% of enrollment at ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL. The remaining students are 21% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, and 2% Black. By the diversity index, ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 43%.
At ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL, 53.6 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 11.4:1. For comparison, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Roughly 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.
ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded C by allk12, scoring above 27% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL's results are 13.3 points below predicted: 48.8% against 62.1%.
Across Suffolk County, median household income is about $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is among the 343 public schools in Suffolk County.
The nearest other public school, ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Fringe. That means it sits in rural territory close to an urban area.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 613 was 10% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 682.
The ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL community page is open for posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 894 students
- JOSEPH A EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- FRANK J CARASITI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 531 students
Other schools in ROCKY POINT
- ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 894 students
- JOSEPH A EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- FRANK J CARASITI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 531 students
Nearby schools
- ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 894
- FRANK J CARASITI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 531
- JOSEPH A EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 542
- ALBERT G PRODELL MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 457
- MILLER PLACE HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 764
- ANDREW MULLER PRIMARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 427
Frequently asked questions
About ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 613 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 72% White, 21% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.