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Enrollment
588
Middle
DISTRICT 531 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361626001483
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
97 OLD DOCK RD, KINGS PARK, NY 11754 · (631) 269-3369 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL588 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New York public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
8.8:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
87 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 | 176 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 201 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 208 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL→KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within KINGS PARK CENTRAL 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
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
77.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -23.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 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 23 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
70.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (70.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 588 | 14.8% | 70.9% |
| SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL SOMERS | 553 | 14.1% | 72.1% |
| EAST NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL EAST NORTHPORT | 633 | 15.2% | 69.0% |
| OAKDALE-BOHEMIA MIDDLE SCHOOL OAKDALE | 564 | 15.8% | 64.1% |
| MOUNT SINAI MIDDLE SCHOOL MOUNT SINAI | 617 | 12.3% | 59.2% |
| WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOL WANTAGH | 645 | 12.2% | 68.5% |
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 WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.9% | #128 of 766 | #6 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #213 of 768 ▼ 188 | #27 of 66 ▼ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #187 of 768 ▲ 15 | #13 of 66 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 588 | #290 of 796 | #41 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.8:1 | #98 of 683 | #6 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.4% | #483 of 688 | #54 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.8% | #733 of 773 | #61 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.7% | #107 of 524 | #6 of 59 |
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
588
-67 (-10%) vs 2020
-33% since 2000-01, when it was 883
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 9.4:1
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 | 588 | 67 | 8.8:1 | 15% (87) |
| 2023-24 | 643 | 71 | 9.1:1 | 15% (98) |
| 2022-23 | 636 | 69 | 9.2:1 | 14% (90) |
| 2020-21 | 655 | 70 | 9.4:1 | 11% (75) |
| 2017-18 | 771 | 61.6 | 12.5:1 | 10% (78) |
| 2015-16 | 855 | 67 | 12.8:1 | 8% (68) |
| 2010-11 | 965 | 72 | 13.4:1 | 6% (60) |
| 2000-01 | 883 | 68 | 13.0:1 | 3% (29) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school with its address in KINGS PARK, New York. It has an enrollment of 588 students in grades 6 through 8.
The 5 schools of KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, including WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL, enroll 2,656 students.
About 78% of the student body at WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is White. The remaining students are 14% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 2% multiracial. Among people living in Suffolk County, the White share is about 66%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 37%.
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a ratio of 8.8 students per teacher, from 67 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 8.8:1 compares with an average of 10.3:1 for middle schools in New York. Lunch program data show 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is lower than the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County.
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 76% of New York public middle schools.
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 70.9%, compared with a predicted 69.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Suffolk County has 343 public schools with about 222,439 students, including WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Of the public schools around it, WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to RJ O INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th of 8 nearby schools, at 70.9% versus a 71.5% average.
In the federal locale system, WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 588, compared with 655 in 2020-21.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 823 students
- RJ O INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 439 students
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 425 students
- FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 381 students
Other schools in KINGS PARK
- KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 823 students
- RJ O INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 439 students
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 425 students
Nearby schools
- RJ O INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 439
- KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 823
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 425
- SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL-WEST1.9 mi · 1,158
- ACCOMPSETT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 522
- ACCOMPSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 523
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 588 students in grades 06-08.
Is WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 67 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.8:1.
What is the student diversity at WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 78% White, 14% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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