Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School

Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School is a public middle school and former high school operated by the Port Washington Union Free School District, located in Port Washington, Nassau County, New York, United States.

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History

Port Washington High School, 1929-1953

In 1927, citing growing educational needs in the Port Washington community, the Port Washington Union Free School District proposed building a new high school and converting the Main Street School into an elementary school. That same year, residents of the district approved of the plans.
In 1929, approximately two years after residents approved constructing Port Washington High School, the construction was completed and the school opened. This school building would be built adjacent to the district's Flower Hill School.
In 1953, to further improve the community's growing needs, the district replaced Port Washington High School with a new senior high school, in turn reusing the 1929-built school as a junior high school. The new high school, known as Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School, would be constructed adjacent to this 1929-built facility.

Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School, 1953–present

After the opening of Schreiber High School, the school district converted Port Washington High School into Port Washington Junior High School. In 1958, it would be renamed Carrie Palmer Weber Junior High School, in honor of Carrie Palmer Weber – a former math teacher who worked in the building when it was still used as a high school; Weber began working as a teacher in the district in 1926, starting as a fourth grade teacher at the former Sands Point School.
In 1993, several years after the closure of the Flower Hill School, the Port Washington UFSD proposed a major grade restructuring of its schools. This included turning Weber into a middle school and connecting the Flower Hill School to it, for use by middle school classes. By 1995, the conversion of Weber into a middle school – and the repurposing the Flower Hill School to become part of it and connected thereto via a breezeway – had been completed.
As of 2025, Weber Middle School continues to operate as the district's sole middle school, handling all students in grades six through eight.

Demographics

As of the 2023–24 school year, Weber Middle School had a total of 1,218 enrolled students in grades six through eight, along with approximately 111.84 full-time equivalent faculty members. This made for a student-to-teacher ratio of approximately 10.89-to-1.