Longwood Junior High School, Middle Island NY

Original Research by School Decision on Longwood Junior High School

Longwood Junior High School is a mid-sized junior high serving seventh and eighth grade students in Middle Island, a moderate-density residential hamlet on Long Island's North Shore. The school draws students from the Longwood Central School District, a public district that recently secured significant voter approval for capital improvements and is expanding Career and Technical Education infrastructure.

The school's academic profile shows mixed proficiency in state testing. In math, seventh grade students achieve proficiency at a rate around four in ten, while eighth grade performance improves to just above one in two. English language arts results are lower: seventh grade reaches just above one in three proficient, and eighth grade holds at four in ten. Science proficiency for eighth grade sits near one in two. Reading participation rates range from the mid-to-high forty percent range, while math participation hovers around mid-forty to just under fifty percent. These participation gaps warrant exploration with the school directly, though they may reflect differences in testing administration or scope rather than engagement. The school does not report proficiency data for seventh grade science, and social studies assessment data from the school comes from 2009-10 and is not current enough to reflect present conditions.

The student body is economically and ethnically diverse. Close to half the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The racial and ethnic composition reflects a mix: roughly one in three students identify as Hispanic, about three in eight as white, one in five as Black, and smaller shares across Asian, multiracial, and Native American groups. Data on English learner enrollment and special education students was not available, so a parent seeking those details would benefit from contacting the school directly.

Enrollment sits at just over thirteen hundred students across the two grades, with fairly balanced distribution. The district completed a May 2024 capital bond referendum with strong voter support, funding security upgrades, roof replacements, bathrooms, and expanded CTE programs districtwide. A new Career and Technical Education center is under construction at the high school, offering pathways in automotive technology, cosmetology, culinary arts, engineering, medical assistance, and media production. For families looking ahead to high school and career readiness, that infrastructure investment may shape the pathway available to students graduating from Longwood Junior High.

The housing market in the school's area, while not specific to Longwood alone, reflects broader Long Island conditions. Home values in the zip code are modest compared to state benchmarks, and the market shows stable year-over-year appreciation. Mortgage rates and affordability metrics suggest this is a middle-income suburban market; homes and rents remain toward the upper end of national affordability but are below state median levels.

When placed against the broader comparison group of districts in Suffolk County, Longwood Junior High's overall proficiency index—the mean of all reported proficiency rates—sits just above the county midpoint, indicating performance slightly better than half of the county's tested schools but with room for growth in both literacy and numeracy.

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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
Math	145	99.0%
Science	143	95.0%

Math

Grade 739%

School 39% · District 39%

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

Grade 852%

School 52% · District 52% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 734%

School 34% · District 34%

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

Grade 840%

School 40% · District 40% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Science

Grade 851%

School 51% · District 50%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 886%

School 86% · district not reported

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

This schoolLONGWOOD CENTRAL 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 7Lower-income19%Higher-income50%31 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income28%Higher-income54%26 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 7Lower-income26%Higher-income52%25 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income43%Higher-income62%19 pp gap