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ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL
ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a close-knit middle school in ROOSEVELT, New York, overseen by ROOSEVELT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 441 students spanning grades 7 through 8.
ROOSEVELT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,152 students; ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.
On the student-mix side, ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder reads as 29% Black, 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the income-and-resources front, ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
With demographic context factored in, ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.4%.
In the broader community, Nassau County reports that median household earnings sit near $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).
ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 46.9%.
ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 446 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 40% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.
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