Dawnwood Middle School
Centereach, NY · Middle School · Grades 6-8
Dawnwood Middle School is a middle school in Centereach, NY with 1,074 students enrolled and a 62% proficiency rate. Part of Middle Country Central School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Dawnwood Middle School is a middle school located in Centereach, New York. The school serves 1,074 students in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
37% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Dawnwood Middle School is part of the Middle Country Central School District in New York.
How This School Compares
Dawnwood Middle School has 1,074 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Middle Country Central School District (672 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 3 percentage points above the district average of 59%. Compared to the New York state average of 47%, the school performs 15 points higher. With a 14.1:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Dawnwood Middle School has 1,074 students enrolled in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1:1.
According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Dawnwood Middle School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Dawnwood Middle School is part of the Middle Country Central School District in Centereach, New York. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.