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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
802
Middle
DISTRICT 877 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362856003841
SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL
99 PELL LN, SYOSSET, NY 11791 · (516) 364-5621 · Nassau County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL802 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of New York public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
9.6:1
84 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
126 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 247 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 273 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 282 | 35% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL→SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SYOSSET CENTRAL 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
79.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
100.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 100 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 100.0% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
87.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (87.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 802 | 15.7% | 87.1% |
| H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL SYOSSET | 951 | 15.8% | 80.8% |
| PLAINVIEW-OLD BETHPAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 953 | 17.8% | 74.6% |
| MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL MANHASSET | 541 | 12.8% | 90.6% |
| JERICHO MIDDLE SCHOOL JERICHO | 825 | 18.4% | 87.3% |
| WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL ROSLYN HEIGHTS | 372 | 5.4% | 85.5% |
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 WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #16 of 766 | #4 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 100% | #47 of 768 ▲ 3 | #5 of 52 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #53 of 768 ▼ 26 | #8 of 52 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 802 | #158 of 796 | #21 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.6:1 | #211 of 683 | #20 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.4% | #224 of 688 | #20 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.7% | #728 of 773 | #40 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.2% | #61 of 168 | #7 of 21 |
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
802
+64 (+9%) vs 2020
+39% since 1990-91, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 8.4:1
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 | 802 | 84 | 9.6:1 | 16% (126) |
| 2023-24 | 785 | 82 | 9.6:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 746 | 82 | 9.1:1 | 12% (90) |
| 2020-21 | 738 | 88 | 8.4:1 | 7% (53) |
| 2017-18 | 728 | 72.6 | 10.0:1 | 6% (41) |
| 2015-16 | 716 | 76 | 9.4:1 | 3% (25) |
| 2010-11 | 751 | 76 | 9.9:1 | 2% (14) |
| 2000-01 | 664 | 60 | 11.1:1 | 1% (5) |
| 1990-91 | 577 | 47 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SYOSSET, New York, is home to SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL, a large middle-grades school. A federal count lists 802 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in New York) has about 531 students.
SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL belongs to SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 10 schools and 6,980 students.
At SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL, Asian students make up 53% of the student body. The remaining shares are 37% White, 5% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Nassau County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 57% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 84 full-time equivalents, or about 9.6 students per teacher. This ratio sits 0.7 below the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 16%. The average for public schools in Nassau County is 31%.
allk12 grades SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL an A+. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 17.8 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (87.1% versus 69.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
According to the American Community Survey, in Nassau County, the median household income is $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On average proficiency, SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 3rd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Locale data from NCES put SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Federal data show a 9% enrollment gain, from 738 in 2020-21 to 802 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 8.4:1 to 9.6:1.
Topics for discussion here include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 951 students
- ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 460 students
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 450 students
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
- BAYLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 416 students
Other schools in SYOSSET
- SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- H B THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 951 students
- PS 256Combined · 543 students
- ROBBINS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 460 students
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 450 students
- SOUTH GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 433 students
Nearby schools
- SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 2,400
- BERRY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 450
- PS 2560.7 mi · 543
- VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 379
- WALT WHITMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 391
- WEST SIDE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 215
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 802 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 84 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 37% White, 5% Hispanic, 0% Black, 53% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SOUTH WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.