# CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL *Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/llm* Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills --- ## Core identification - **NCES School ID**: `361329001081` - **School name**: CANDLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL - **Location**: DIX HILLS, NY 11746 - **Address**: 1200 CARLLS STRAIGHT PATH - **District**: HALF HOLLOW HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3613290`) - **Sector**: Public - **School type**: Regular - **School level**: Middle - **Grade range**: 6–8 - **Coordinates**: 40.79527, -73.31924 - **Phone**: (631)592-3300 ## Enrollment (2024) - **Students**: 706 - **Teachers (FTE)**: 72 - **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.8:1 - **Free/reduced lunch**: 27.8% ## State accountability rating - **System**: NY ESSA - **Year**: 2025 - **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement - **Indicators**: - HS ELP: s - HS Grad Rate: s - HS Core Performance: s - HS Attendance: s - HS CCCR: s - EM Growth: 3 - EM Core Performance: 4 - EM Weight Performance: 3 - HS Weight Performance: s - EM ELP: 2 - EM Attendance: 4 - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement ## Academic performance (state assessments) ### 2025 - **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient - **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient ## Attendance - **2020**: chronic absence 51.6% (376 students) [source: crdc_2020] - **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (5 students) [source: crdc] - **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc] - **2015**: chronic absence 118.8% (877 students) [source: crdc] ## Discipline (latest CRDC year) - **Year**: 2020 - **In-school suspensions**: 1 - **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0 - **Expulsions**: 0 ## Demographics (2023) - **White**: 0.5% - **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.8% - **Black/African American**: 19.6% - **Asian**: 15.2% - **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 44.7% - **Pacific Islander**: 0.1% - **Two or more races**: 4.0% - **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 23.3% ## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017) - **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.6% — 226 students - **English Learners**: 1.4% — 10 students ## Disability category breakdown (CRDC) - **Specific Learning Disability**: 65 students - **Other Health Impairment**: 29 students - **Autism**: 25 students - **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students - **Visual Impairment**: 3 students - **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students - **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students - **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students - **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students - **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students ## Programs & enrichment - Advanced Placement (AP) ## Finance ### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025) - **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $49,420 - **Federal share**: $698 - **State + local share**: $48,722 - **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 738 ### District F-33 (2022) - **District per-pupil revenue**: $36,871,085 - **Federal share**: 3.2% - **State share**: 16.0% - **Local share**: 80.8% - **Instructional spending per pupil**: $23,484,746 ## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023) - **Median household income**: $248,074 - **Poverty rate**: 1.2% - **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 54.5% - **Unemployment**: 8.2% - **Foreign-born residents**: 15.3% - **Single-parent households**: 6.8% ## Environmental context - **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.0 miles (COMPUTER CIRCUITS) - **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0 - **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 46 - **Nearest brownfield**: 3.41 miles (1617 STRAIGHT PATH) ### Air quality - **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9) - **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles ## Nearby schools performing better ### chronic absence - **OTSEGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%) - **BRENTWOOD RESIDENTIAL CENTER** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%) - **ROLLING HILLS SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%) - **COMMACK MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%) - **VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 0.68%) ### ela proficiency - **VANDERBILT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 63% (this school: 60%) - **PAUMANOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 63% (this school: 60%) - **JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 65% (this school: 60%) - **PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 65% (this school: 60%) - **BRETTON WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.1 mi away, 72% (this school: 60%) ### math proficiency - **UDALL ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.1 mi away, 95% (this school: 84.67%) - **EAST NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 85.33% (this school: 84.67%) - **OLD BETHPAGE SCHOOL** — 7.1 mi away, 85% (this school: 84.67%) - **NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.2 mi away, 87.17% (this school: 84.67%) - **H B MATTLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.6 mi away, 93.33% (this school: 84.67%) ## Related data feeds - **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills - **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/performance - **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/finance - **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/demographics - **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/inclusion - **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/context - **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/attendance - **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/discipline - **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/outcomes - **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/candlewood-middle-school-dix-hills/workforce --- *Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). 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