Island Park Lincoln Orens Middle School, Island Park NY

Original Research by School Decision on Island Park Lincoln Orens Middle School

Island Park Lincoln Orens Middle School serves grades five through eight in a small, mixed community on Long Island. The school enrolls a student body with notable diversity: about half the enrollment is White, and more than a third is Hispanic, with modest shares of Asian and Black students. Roughly two in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a measure of economic need. The school sits within the Island Park Union Free School District, a place where property tax dynamics matter significantly for families considering a move. A major shift occurred when a local power plant's tax burden was substantially reduced through a 2022 settlement; this shifted a large share of the district's historical funding to homeowners. The district has since held tax levies flat for two years, aided by higher state aid, but this remains a context families should understand before relocating.

On state testing, Lincoln Orens shows a mixed picture across grades and subjects. In English language arts, performance ranges considerably. Fifth-grade proficiency sits around the middle range, while sixth grade is notably stronger. By seventh and eighth grade, proficiency drops markedly, with less than half of students meeting the state standard in both grades. Math performance is similarly uneven, with a particularly strong cohort in sixth grade but weaker results in grades five, seven, and eighth, where fewer than half of students tested met the standard. Science testing is limited to fifth grade only; results there are near fifty-fifty. Participation rates vary, with stronger participation in the earlier grades and notably lower engagement in seventh and eighth grade, which a parent may want to look into further with the school.

Relative to districts across Nassau County, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile, indicating that proficiency here trails the typical district in the county. The school lacks data on graduation rate and chronic absenteeism, which is expected for a middle school that does not feed into a high school data collection system.

The school offers a standard middle-school pathway without reported specialized programs, career pathways, or dual-credit options in the available data. No information was provided on course sequencing, advanced learner support, or enrichment offerings. The district is currently investing in literacy improvements tied to the science of reading at the K-3 level, but middle-school-specific curriculum changes were not documented.

Lincoln Orens is a moderately sized school for its grade band, with roughly even distribution across the four grades served. The residential community around it sits in a market where median home values are in the upper range for Long Island, and rental costs are substantial. This remains an area shaped by its industrial past and the tax implications that settlement created, making it a place where a family's long-term financial picture depends partly on understanding the local property tax structure.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

New York Regents Exams

2 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Science	63	73.0%
Math	20	100.0%

Math

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 43%

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Grade 676%

School 76% · District 76%

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 744%

School 44% · District 44%

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 830%

School 30% · District 30%

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 557%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 659%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 745%

School 45% · District 45%

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 837%

School 37% · District 37%

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Science

Grade 551%

School 51% · District 51%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 0%

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 5100%

School 100% · District 100%

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 894%

School 94% · District 93% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolISLAND PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income52%Higher-income62%10 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income64%Higher-income57%6 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income39%Higher-income48%10 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income41%Higher-income35%7 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income18%Higher-income63%45 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income58%Higher-income83%25 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income31%Higher-income50%19 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income25%Higher-income33%8 pp gap