WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL

WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a roomy middle-grades school in MORICHES, New York, run under WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 1,124 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 112% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Across the 9 schools in WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (9,386 students total), WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% White, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL records 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MORICHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 49.2%.

WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,055 (now 1,124). The White share of enrollment decreased from 46% to 26% over that span.

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