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What's one thing SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
880
Middle
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362832003817
SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL
80 HEMION RD, SUFFERN, NY 10901 · (845) 357-7400 · Rockland County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL880 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% 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.
- C+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
9.7:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
367 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 299 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 288 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 293 | 33% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL→SUFFERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SUFFERN 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
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
63.7%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 63.7% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 59.3% |
% 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
56.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL
SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (56.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 880 | 41.7% | 56.2% |
| HENRY L STIMSON MIDDLE SCHOOL HUNTINGTON STATION | 845 | 45.8% | 49.8% |
| DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL CENTEREACH | 967 | 47.1% | 52.9% |
| BAY SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 1,258 | 43.3% | 49.9% |
| HENRY H WELLS MIDDLE SCHOOL BREWSTER | 656 | 38.1% | 49.6% |
| ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL ISLIP | 601 | 44.4% | 44.6% |
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 SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Rockland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.2% | #321 of 766 | #6 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.7% | #333 of 768 ▲ 30 | #6 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #443 of 768 ▼ 67 | #9 of 15 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 880 | #118 of 796 | #2 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #246 of 683 | #4 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #115 of 688 | #6 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.7% | #512 of 773 | #8 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.3% | #193 of 524 | #1 of 8 |
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
880
-93 (-10%) vs 2020
+47% since 1990-91, when it was 598
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 880 | 90.4 | 9.7:1 | 42% (367) |
| 2023-24 | 847 | 89.8 | 9.4:1 | 43% (362) |
| 2022-23 | 836 | 91.3 | 9.2:1 | 38% (316) |
| 2020-21 | 973 | 90 | 10.8:1 | 33% (324) |
| 2017-18 | 1,052 | 90.5 | 11.6:1 | 28% (297) |
| 2015-16 | 1,033 | 87 | 11.9:1 | 21% (220) |
| 2010-11 | 1,144 | 95 | 12.0:1 | 15% (175) |
| 2000-01 | 722 | 62 | 11.7:1 | 5% (33) |
| 1990-91 | 598 | 54 | 11.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL
SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle-grades school located in SUFFERN, New York. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 880 students on the rolls. On average, middle schools in New York enroll around 531, and this school is 66% larger than that mark.
Across its 7 schools, SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 4,170 students. SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The largest racial or ethnic group at SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is Hispanic, with 49% of students. Other groups include 30% White, 9% Black, 8% Asian, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 21% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 66%.
Classroom staffing at SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL totals 90.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 9.7:1. That is in line with the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Federal data show 42% of students (367) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at B-, ahead of 52% of New York public middle schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 3.5 points below its prediction. Actual: 56.2%. Predicted: 59.7%.
In the wider Rockland County area, median household income comes to about $109,959, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Rockland County's 66 public schools enroll about 41,335 students and include SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL, is about 0.1 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 880 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 973. The ratio was 10.8:1 in 2020-21 and 9.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Rockland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
341,883
Census ACS
Median income
$109,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
41,335 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SUFFERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,450 students
- RICHARD P CONNOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 437 students
- CHERRY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 413 students
- MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 343 students
- VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 325 students
- SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 322 students
Other schools in SUFFERN
- SUFFERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,450 students
- POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 689 students
- LIME KILN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 584 students
- RICHARD P CONNOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 437 students
- CHERRY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 413 students
- MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 343 students
Nearby schools
- MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL0.1 mi · 343
- RICHARD P CONNOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 437
- SUFFERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,450
- VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 325
- CHERRY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 413
- Betsy Ross Elementary2.1 mi · 238
Frequently asked questions
About SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 880 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.7:1 students per teacher at SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 30% White, 49% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.