# MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361902001726`
- **School name**: MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: MERRICK, NY 11566
- **Address**: 1870 MERRICK AVE
- **District**: BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3619020`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–9
- **Coordinates**: 40.67111, -73.55736
- **Phone**: (516)992-1200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 848
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 75
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 13.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Grad Rate: s
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Core Performance: s
  - HS CCCR: s
  - HS Attendance: s
  - EM Growth: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - HS Weight Performance: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM ELP: s
  - 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 2.4% (18 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.9% (75 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 17
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 8.9%
- **Black/African American**: 6.8%
- **Asian**: 2.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 80.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 10.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.4% — 139 students
- **English Learners**: 0.9% — 8 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 44 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 34 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 32 students
- **Autism**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,360
- **Federal share**: $94
- **State + local share**: $33,267
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 846
### 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**: $140,033
- **Poverty rate**: 4.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 52.1%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,523
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.4 miles (OLD ROOSEVELT FIELD CONTAMINATED GW AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.93 miles (BISHOP PROPERTY PROPERTY B)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LIBERTY UTILITIES NEW YORK - LYNBROOK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 15
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **CHATTERTON SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 73% (this school: 63%)
- **NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 68% (this school: 63%)
- **HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 73% (this school: 63%)
- **WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 64% (this school: 63%)
- **BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 75% (this school: 63%)

### math proficiency
- **MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **GARDEN CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.8 mi away, 93.8% (this school: 91%)
- **WILLETS ROAD SCHOOL** — 7.9 mi away, 92.67% (this school: 91%)
- **GEORGE A JACKSON SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **ROSLYN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 8.7 mi away, 95% (this school: 91%)

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