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If you could change one rule at VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
937
Middle
DISTRICT 1,137 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362952003981
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
320 FLETCHER AVE, VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580 · (516) 872-7710 · Nassau County
GRADES 07–09MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL937 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test 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
11.4:1
82 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
452 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 7 | 304 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 301 | 32% |
| Grade 9 | 332 | 35% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH 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
54.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
76.9%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 76.9% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 78.3% |
% 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
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 937 | 48.2% | 60.5% |
| ROBERT FROST MIDDLE SCHOOL DEER PARK | 913 | 43.6% | 58.8% |
| ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH BABYLON | 1,022 | 51.6% | 42.8% |
| STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ALBANY | 570 | 66.0% | 35.5% |
| BALDWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL BALDWIN | 1,007 | 42.2% | 53.9% |
| MS 51 WILLIAM ALEXANDER BROOKLYN | 1,038 | 60.2% | 67.9% |
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 VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #255 of 766 | #36 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.9% | #216 of 768 ▼ 26 | #33 of 52 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #288 of 768 ▲ 15 | #31 of 52 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 937 | #96 of 796 | #12 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #501 of 683 | #42 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.2% | #42 of 688 | #1 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.2% | #433 of 773 | #12 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.2% | #50 of 168 | #4 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
937
-117 (-11%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 875
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 937 | 81.9 | 11.4:1 | 48% (452) |
| 2023-24 | 973 | 82.9 | 11.7:1 | 45% (442) |
| 2022-23 | 1,038 | 82.8 | 12.5:1 | 40% (420) |
| 2020-21 | 1,054 | 77 | 13.7:1 | 40% (417) |
| 2017-18 | 835 | 57.5 | 14.5:1 | 37% (313) |
| 2015-16 | 829 | 67 | 12.4:1 | 34% (279) |
| 2010-11 | 1,014 | 70 | 14.5:1 | 18% (183) |
| 2000-01 | 1,023 | 63 | 16.2:1 | 3% (34) |
| 1990-91 | 875 | 61 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-grades school in VALLEY STREAM, New York, reachable at (516) 872-7710. It had 937 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 7 through 9. That compares with an average of about 531 students for middle schools in New York.
VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT includes 4 schools. Together they enroll 4,547 students.
At VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Black students make up the biggest share, 37%. Other students are 30% Hispanic, 24% Asian, and 7% White. By comparison, Nassau County residents are about 11% Black. A diversity index of 71% means there is a 71% chance two randomly chosen students at VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
For every teacher at VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, there are about 11.4 students; the school has 81.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in New York, 10.3:1, is lower. There are 452 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 48% of enrollment. Across public schools in Nassau County, the average is 31%.
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 70% of New York public middle schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's results are 3.3 points above predicted: 60.5% against 57.3%.
American Community Survey estimates for Nassau County show that the median household earns about $146,202 a year, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Across Nassau County, 315 public schools serve about 200,775 students.
VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 6th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 11%, from 1,054 to 937. Students per teacher dropped from 13.7 in 2020-21 to 11.4 in 2024-25.
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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 VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- VALLEY STREAM NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,260 students
- VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,229 students
- VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,121 students
Other schools in VALLEY STREAM
- VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,229 students
- VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,121 students
- SHAW AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 740 students
- WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 608 students
- HOWELL ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 599 students
- JAMES A DEVER SCHOOLElementary · 437 students
Nearby schools
- VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,121
- WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 608
- HOWELL ROAD SCHOOL0.5 mi · 599
- JAMES A DEVER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 437
- SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 740
- CLEARSTREAM AVENUE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 385
Frequently asked questions
About VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 937 students in grades 07-09.
Is VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 07-09.
How many teachers does VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 82 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1.
How diverse is VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 7% White, 30% Hispanic, 37% Black, 24% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.