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How Merrick Avenue Middle School compares
62% vs. 65% district avg
3 points below Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District
62% vs. 47% New York avg
16 points above state average
814
Enrollment
11.0:1
Student:Teacher
62%
Proficiency Rate
8%
Free/Reduced Lunch

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About This School

Merrick Avenue Middle School is a middle school located in Merrick, New York. The school serves 814 students in grades 7-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.0:1.

According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.

8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Merrick Avenue Middle School is part of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District in New York.

How This School Compares

Merrick Avenue Middle School has 814 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District (1,040 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 3 percentage points below the district average of 65%. Compared to the New York state average of 47%, the school performs 16 points higher. With a 11.0:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.

Frequently Asked Questions

Merrick Avenue Middle School has 814 students enrolled in grades 7-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.0:1.

According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Merrick Avenue Middle School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.

Merrick Avenue Middle School is part of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District in Merrick, 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.

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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.

The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

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.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.