VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 320 FLETCHER AVE, in VALLEY STREAM, New York, VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a sprawling junior high that educates 937 students (grades 7 through 9), part of VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 76% bigger than the state mean of about 531.

Across the 4 schools in VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,547 students total), VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 24% Asian, 7% White. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Nassau County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

The closest other public school is VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 61.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 12%: 835 students in 2018 compared to 937 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment rose from 19% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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