# TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362928003943`
- **School name**: TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: UNIONDALE, NY 11553
- **Address**: 975 JERUSALEM AVE
- **District**: UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3629280`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.69660, -73.58260
- **Phone**: (516)918-1301

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 637
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 70
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 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 28.6% (231 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.1% (105 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 61.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 34.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.1% — 125 students
- **English Learners**: 23.1% — 151 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 39 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $88,028
- **Federal share**: $1,582
- **State + local share**: $86,446
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 654
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $37,828,741
- **Federal share**: 11.1%
- **State share**: 32.6%
- **Local share**: 56.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $23,147,151

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $132,558
- **Poverty rate**: 9.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.4%
- **Unemployment**: 6.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,421
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.2 miles (OLD ROOSEVELT FIELD CONTAMINATED GW AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 32
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.57 miles (ROOSEVELT PROPERTY A)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TOWER OAKS SHOPPING CENTER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SMITH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 1.31% (this school: 2.14%)
- **NORTHERN PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 2.14%)
- **BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.14%)
- **HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.14%)
- **OLD MILL ROAD SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.14%)

### ela proficiency
- **SMITH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 37% (this school: 26%)
- **ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 31% (this school: 26%)
- **WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 45% (this school: 26%)
- **NORTHERN PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 30% (this school: 26%)
- **BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 75% (this school: 26%)

### math proficiency
- **BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 91% (this school: 62.2%)
- **HAROLD D FAYETTE SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 90% (this school: 62.2%)
- **OLD MILL ROAD SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 65% (this school: 62.2%)
- **WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 87.8% (this school: 62.2%)
- **GRAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 65% (this school: 62.2%)

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