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Enrollment
975
Middle
DISTRICT 1,010 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360528000258
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL
785 CANDLEWOOD RD, BRENTWOOD, NY 11717 · (631) 434-2341 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL975 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of New York public middle schools
- CTest 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
11.9:1
82 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
840 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 | 322 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 299 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 340 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 14 | 1% |
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
43.1%
NY avg 57.4% . -42.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 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 up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 43 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 43.1% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 86.0% |
% 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
42.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (42.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 975 | 86.2% | 42.6% |
| NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 1,051 | 85.2% | 38.4% |
| EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 1,108 | 87.3% | 43.1% |
| WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 906 | 82.2% | 36.9% |
| POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL SUFFERN | 689 | 85.6% | 33.2% |
| ACADEMY FOR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE BRONX | 788 | 94.4% | 35.0% |
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 SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #572 of 766 | #53 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.1% | #593 of 768 ▼ 450 | #57 of 66 ▼ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #578 of 768 ▲ 83 | #44 of 66 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 975 | #81 of 796 | #14 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #543 of 683 | #56 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.0% | #591 of 688 | #64 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.2% | #179 of 773 | #2 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.2% | #380 of 524 | #47 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
975
-75 (-7%) vs 2020
+46% since 1990-91, when it was 667
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 975 | 82 | 11.9:1 | 86% (840) |
| 2023-24 | 995 | 82.4 | 12.1:1 | 82% (816) |
| 2022-23 | 1,033 | 78.7 | 13.1:1 | 86% (891) |
| 2020-21 | 1,050 | 77 | 13.6:1 | 88% (920) |
| 2017-18 | 1,051 | 63 | 16.7:1 | 88% (922) |
| 2015-16 | 924 | 57 | 16.2:1 | 83% (771) |
| 2010-11 | 854 | 57 | 15.0:1 | 68% (578) |
| 2000-01 | 868 | 51 | 17.0:1 | 58% (506) |
| 1990-91 | 667 | 47 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle school in BRENTWOOD, New York. The school enrolls 975 students, from grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in New York is about 531, so this school runs 84% above that.
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 17 schools in BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 17,844 students in total.
The large majority of students at SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL, 88%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 7% Black. Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. By the diversity index, SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 22%.
The school reports 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 11.9 students per teacher. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 86%. The 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County is 47 points lower.
Measured against New York public middle schools, SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 42.6%, compared with a predicted 43.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Suffolk County (population about 1,530,146), median household income is about $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County, which together enroll about 222,439 students.
The closest other public school is OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is ahead of the 36.5% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 7.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL had 1,050 students in 2020-21 and 975 in 2024-25, a 7% decrease. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.6:1 to 11.9:1.
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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 BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,816 students
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CAMPUSHigh · 1,287 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,108 students
- NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,051 students
- SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 975 students
- NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 937 students
Other schools in BRENTWOOD
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,816 students
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CAMPUSHigh · 1,287 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,108 students
- NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,051 students
- NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 937 students
- NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 881 students
Other South Middle schools
17 other US public schools in 14 states are named South Middle. SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 18.
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLNEWBURGH, NY · 782 students
- South Middle SchoolEDINBURG, TX · 1,246 students
- South Middle SchoolWaukee, IA · 1,092 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLNAMPA, ID · 836 students
- South Middle SchoolArlington Heights, IL · 812 students
Nearby schools
- OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 678
- BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 4,816
- LAUREL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 671
- SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 533
- LORETTA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 639
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,108
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 975 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 11.9:1 (82 FTE teachers).
How diverse is SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 88% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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