# BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361863001682`
- **School name**: BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: MASSAPEQUA, NY 11758
- **Address**: 50 CARMAN MILL RD
- **District**: MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3618630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.67280, -73.43350
- **Phone**: (516)308-5701

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,487
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 161
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 10.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 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 8.1% (122 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.3% (175 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 10
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.9%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 90.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 9.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.7% — 182 students
- **English Learners**: 0.3% — 5 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 57 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 55 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,803
- **Federal share**: $275
- **State + local share**: $32,528
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,551
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $33,110,146
- **Federal share**: 3.1%
- **State share**: 22.1%
- **Local share**: 74.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $20,764,930

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $168,750
- **Poverty rate**: 0.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.4%
- **Unemployment**: 6.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,621
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (PREFERRED PLATING CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.26 miles (T M BER ASSOCIATES INC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MASSAPEQUA WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **LOCKHART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 61% (this school: 59%)
- **ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 59%)
- **SEAFORD MANOR SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 64% (this school: 59%)
- **WILLIAM RALL SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 61% (this school: 59%)
- **WINTHROP AVENUE SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 64% (this school: 59%)

### math proficiency
- **GRAND AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.7 mi away, 90.25% (this school: 85.2%)
- **MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.5 mi away, 91% (this school: 85.2%)
- **WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.9 mi away, 87.8% (this school: 85.2%)
- **HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL** — 7.0 mi away, 90% (this school: 85.2%)
- **MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 85.2%)

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