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WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL
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WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is an expansive middle school in WESTBURY, New York, one of the schools within WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 945 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 78% above that benchmark.
WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,480 students; WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.
In terms of who attends, WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Nassau County's rate of about 31%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.5%; this one delivers 41.9%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Nassau County put the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.3%.
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Looking at the recent track record. WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 1,108 (now 945). Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.
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