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A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 100 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 49 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Set in SPENCERPORT, New York, A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is an expansive middle school, run under SPENCERPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 854 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.
SPENCERPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,587 students; A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.
Looking at the student body, A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 12% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Monroe County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
With demographic context factored in, A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.7%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of -17.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Monroe County put the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Monroe County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SPENCERPORT HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.
A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. A M COSGROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 4% since 2018, when it stood at 824 (now 854). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 7% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.
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