# GRAND AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361902001722`
- **School name**: GRAND AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: BELLMORE, NY 11710
- **Address**: 2301 GRAND AVE
- **District**: BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3619020`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.66990, -73.54260
- **Phone**: (516)992-1100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 916
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 76
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 17.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - 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 4.7% (42 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.5% (112 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 8
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.5%
- **Black/African American**: 7.4%
- **Asian**: 3.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 74.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 13.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.8% — 142 students
- **English Learners**: 0.6% — 5 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 43 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 28 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,161
- **Federal share**: $95
- **State + local share**: $31,066
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 897
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $32,300,039
- **Federal share**: 3.5%
- **State share**: 25.0%
- **Local share**: 71.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $20,504,242

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $143,500
- **Poverty rate**: 5.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.8 miles (NEW CASSEL HICKSVILLE GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.69 miles (BISHOP PROPERTY PROPERTY B)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GEORGETOWN BLUFFS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **CHATTERTON SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 73% (this school: 60%)
- **MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 63% (this school: 60%)
- **WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 64% (this school: 60%)
- **NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 68% (this school: 60%)
- **SHORE ROAD SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 63% (this school: 60%)

### math proficiency
- **MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 91% (this school: 90.25%)
- **BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 91% (this school: 90.25%)
- **MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 92% (this school: 90.25%)
- **GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.5 mi away, 93.8% (this school: 90.25%)
- **WHEATLEY SCHOOL** — 7.5 mi away, 90.67% (this school: 90.25%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/grand-avenue-middle-school-bellmore/workforce

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*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). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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