Public school / Middle
South Ocean Middle School
Patchogue, New York
- NCES ID
- 362247003168
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South Ocean Middle School is a public middle school in Patchogue, New York, run by Patchogue-Medford Union Free School District. It enrols 599 students — the 26907th 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
599
Teachers
55.0
Students per teacher
10.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
57.4%
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 Patchogue-Medford 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.
- 1Patchogue-Medford High School2,443 students
- 2Eagle Elementary School603 students
- 3South Ocean Middle School599 students
- 4Oregon Middle School592 students
- 5Canaan Elementary School518 students
- 6Saxton Middle School495 students
- 7Barton Elementary School478 students
- 8Tremont Elementary School466 students
- Enrollment+32.2%
- Teachers+48.6%
- Students per teacher−5.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−1.5%
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