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Enrollment
893
Middle
DISTRICT 889 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362535003507
SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL
57 DIVISION ST, HOLTSVILLE, NY 11742 · (631) 696-8600 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL893 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 56% of New York public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
10.2:1
88 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
337 students
DISTRICT 33% · 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 | 293 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 273 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 312 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 15 | 2% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
78.4%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 78.4% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 79.3% |
% 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
58.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL
SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (58.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 893 | 37.7% | 58.5% |
| SAMOSET MIDDLE SCHOOL LAKE RONKONKOMA | 847 | 39.4% | 56.8% |
| VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MONTGOMERY | 945 | 39.9% | 61.1% |
| WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL WASHINGTONVILLE | 884 | 40.0% | 52.3% |
| WAPPINGERS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 764 | 39.4% | 55.9% |
| SENECA MIDDLE SCHOOL HOLBROOK | 928 | 32.7% | 53.9% |
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 SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #284 of 766 | #27 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.4% | #204 of 768 ▼ 18 | #26 of 66 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #546 of 768 ▼ 148 | #41 of 66 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 893 | #114 of 796 | #20 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #320 of 683 | #31 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.0% | #193 of 688 | #21 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.7% | #550 of 773 | #32 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.4% | #191 of 524 | #20 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
893
-63 (-7%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 1,220
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 893 | 87.7 | 10.2:1 | 38% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 898 | 90.1 | 10.0:1 | 35% (311) |
| 2022-23 | 933 | 81.1 | 11.5:1 | 30% (280) |
| 2020-21 | 956 | 80 | 11.9:1 | 32% (302) |
| 2017-18 | 1,068 | 71 | 15.0:1 | 26% (281) |
| 2015-16 | 791 | 53 | 14.9:1 | 26% (209) |
| 2010-11 | 801 | 60 | 13.3:1 | 15% (123) |
| 2000-01 | 1,231 | 93 | 13.2:1 | 9% (113) |
| 1990-91 | 1,220 | 104 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL
SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the name of a high-enrollment middle-grades school in HOLTSVILLE, New York. The school counts 893 students across grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 68% larger than the 531 average for middle schools in New York.
Enrollment across the 15 schools in SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 11,556 students.
By race and ethnicity, SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 55% White. It is also 30% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Suffolk County is roughly 66% White. SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL has a diversity index of 60%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 87.7 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.2:1. Middle schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 10.3:1. The school's lunch program data list 38% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is close to the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County.
allk12 grades SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL a B. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL would be expected to post about 61.1%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 58.5%.
Suffolk County has these Census figures: median household income is about $130,686, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among the 343 public schools in Suffolk County.
The closest public school, CHIPPEWA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 0.3 miles from SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 1st among 9 schools close by.
SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 956 to 893. Students per teacher fell from 11.9 in 2020-21 to 10.2 in 2024-25.
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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 SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL NORTHHigh · 2,008 students
- SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL EASTHigh · 1,984 students
- SENECA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 928 students
- SAMOSET MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 847 students
- LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 561 students
- CHIPPEWA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 543 students
Other schools in HOLTSVILLE
- CHIPPEWA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 543 students
- WAVERLY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 497 students
Nearby schools
- CHIPPEWA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 543
- WAVERLY AVENUE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 497
- NOKOMIS SCHOOL1.2 mi · 496
- LYNWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 561
- TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 421
- SENECA MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 928
Frequently asked questions
About SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 893 students in grades 06-08.
Is SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 88 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
What is the student diversity at SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 55% White, 30% Hispanic, 5% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SACHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.