Public school / Middle
J Taylor Finley Middle School
Huntington, New York
- NCES ID
- 361509001260
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
J Taylor Finley Middle School is a public middle school in Huntington, New York, run by Huntington Union Free School District. It enrols 623 students — the 24781st largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
623
Teachers
67.0
Students per teacher
9.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
58.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Huntington Union Free School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Huntington High School1,410 students
- 2J Taylor Finley Middle School623 students
- 3Jack Abrams STEM Magnet School442 students
- 4Woodhull Intermediate School410 students
- 5Washington School334 students
- 6Southdown School289 students
- 7Jefferson School286 students
- 8Flower Hill School273 students
- Enrollment+37.5%
- Teachers+81.1%
- Students per teacher−19.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch0.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory