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Enrollment
945
Middle
DISTRICT 747 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363096004161
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL
455 ROCKLAND ST, WESTBURY, NY 11590 · (516) 876-5082 · Nassau County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL945 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of New York public middle schools
- C-Test 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
9.8:1
97 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
604 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 311 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 309 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 319 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL→WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within WESTBURY UNION FREE 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
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
44.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 44.5% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 46.0% |
% 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
41.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (41.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 945 | 63.9% | 41.9% |
| CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL FREEPORT | 882 | 67.6% | 36.1% |
| JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOL FREEPORT | 924 | 70.8% | 46.5% |
| COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL COPIAGUE | 1,081 | 58.1% | 41.5% |
| RALPH REED SCHOOL CENTRAL ISLIP | 1,192 | 61.9% | 33.7% |
| TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOL UNIONDALE | 637 | 67.5% | 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 WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.9% | #580 of 766 | #47 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #580 of 768 ▼ 44 | #48 of 52 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #549 of 768 ▼ 81 | #46 of 52 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 945 | #95 of 796 | #11 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #254 of 683 | #22 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.6% | #423 of 688 | #40 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.9% | #325 of 773 | #9 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.7% | #223 of 524 | #8 of 30 |
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
945
-198 (-17%) vs 2020
+68% since 1990-91, when it was 563
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 945 | 96.8 | 9.8:1 | 64% (604) |
| 2023-24 | 988 | 103.4 | 9.6:1 | 63% (624) |
| 2022-23 | 1,053 | 103.2 | 10.2:1 | 61% (646) |
| 2020-21 | 1,143 | 100 | 11.4:1 | 63% (725) |
| 2017-18 | 1,108 | 96.3 | 11.5:1 | 74% (821) |
| 2015-16 | 1,052 | 67 | 15.7:1 | 89% (941) |
| 2010-11 | 869 | 66 | 13.2:1 | 86% (747) |
| 2000-01 | 826 | 63 | 13.1:1 | 82% (674) |
| 1990-91 | 563 | 65 | 8.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the name of a large middle school in WESTBURY, New York. The school serves 945 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. The average among middle schools in New York is roughly 531 students; this school is 78% above that.
WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL. It has 6 schools and 4,480 students.
At WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL, Hispanic students make up 71% of the student body. Next come 24% Black and 4% White. The county population is about 19% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 44%, meaning two students picked at random have a 44% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL counts 96.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 9.8 students for each one. For comparison, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. About 64% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Nassau County is 31%.
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 19% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 51.5%. WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 41.9%, 9.6 points below that line.
In Nassau County (population about 1,389,591), the median household income is $146,202, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. There are 315 public schools in Nassau County, enrolling about 200,775 students in all.
The closest other public school is WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is behind the 52.3% nearby average, ranking 5th of 7.
Under the NCES locale system, WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment declined 17% from its 2020-21 level of 1,143. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 11.4:1 to 9.8:1.
Discussions about WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,574 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 557 students
- DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- POWELLS LANE SCHOOLElementary · 476 students
- DRYDEN STREET SCHOOLElementary · 415 students
- NASSAU CO JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERElementary
Other schools in WESTBURY
- W TRESPER CLARKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 898 students
- BOWLING GREEN SCHOOLElementary · 895 students
- CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 663 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 557 students
- DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- POWELLS LANE SCHOOLElementary · 476 students
Nearby schools
- WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,574
- POWELLS LANE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 476
- DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 513
- DRYDEN STREET SCHOOL0.7 mi · 415
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 557
- CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 617
Frequently asked questions
About WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 945 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.8:1 students per teacher at WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 4% White, 71% Hispanic, 24% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.