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How has ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
403
High
DISTRICT 365 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALEXANDER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360258000043
ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL
3314 BUFFALO ST, ALEXANDER, NY 14005 · (585) 591-1551 · Genesee County
GRADES 06–12HIGH42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL403 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 41% of New York public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
101 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 9 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 10 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 11 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 12 | 45 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 12 | 3% |
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
63.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.9pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +12.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 65.6% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL
ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (61.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL this school | 403 | 25.1% | 61.6% |
| MAPLE HILL JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CASTLETON | 399 | 23.1% | 72.4% |
| MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL MARCELLUS | 435 | 23.0% | 84.6% |
| DONALD H CRANE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WESTMORELAND | 360 | 26.1% | 69.9% |
| FONDA-FULTONVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FONDA | 349 | 27.2% | 91.7% |
| CLINTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CLINTON | 339 | 23.6% | 87.3% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Genesee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #507 of 1,135 | #3 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #161 of 1,109 ▲ 260 | #1 of 8 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #730 of 1,135 ▲ 140 | #5 of 8 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 403 | #706 of 1,216 | #5 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #97 of 1,058 | #3 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.0% | #936 of 1,070 | #3 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.1% | #1,052 of 1,167 | #8 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.4% | #304 of 743 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
403
-53 (-12%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 401
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 10.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 403 | 47.3 | 8.5:1 | 25% (101) |
| 2023-24 | 408 | 46.1 | 8.9:1 | 32% (129) |
| 2022-23 | 423 | 44.9 | 9.4:1 | 35% (146) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 42 | 10.9:1 | 27% (122) |
| 2017-18 | 471 | 39.3 | 12.0:1 | 34% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 452 | 39 | 11.6:1 | 30% (135) |
| 2010-11 | 501 | 37 | 13.5:1 | 29% (145) |
| 2000-01 | 507 | 45 | 11.3:1 | 20% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 401 | 36 | 11.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL.
About ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL
ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL is a small high school with an address in ALEXANDER, New York. It enrolled 403 students in grades 6 through 12 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 40% lower than the average for high schools in New York, which is about 668.
A total of 2 schools make up ALEXANDER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 729 students enrolled.
ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL enrolls a student body that is 92% White. The school is also 4% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. For comparison, Genesee County is about 89% White. By the diversity index, ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL comes in at 15%.
Staffing totals 47.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 8.5:1. That ratio is under the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL is 25%. The gap from the 45% average for public schools in Genesee County is 20 points.
The allk12 Grade for ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL is C+. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 41% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL, the prediction is 65.8% and the result is 61.6%.
In Genesee County (population about 57,787), median household income is about $73,314, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 21 public schools operate in Genesee County, serving about 7,800 students.
The nearest other public school, ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 4. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 55.0%; ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL's is 61.6%, ranking 2nd of 6.
For locale, NCES codes ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL as Rural: Distant.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 456 to 403. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 10.9:1 to 8.5:1.
The ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Genesee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
57,787
Census ACS
Median income
$73,314
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
7,800 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALEXANDER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 326 students
Nearby schools
- ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 326
- ATTICA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 452
- ATTICA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.8 mi · 346
- ATTICA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.8 mi · 326
- PEMBROKE PRIMARY SCHOOL7.1 mi · 194
- JACKSON SCHOOL7.2 mi · 397
Frequently asked questions
About ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL?
ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 403 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL serve?
ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 06-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 8.5:1 (47 FTE teachers).
How diverse is ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL?
ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 92% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL?
ALEXANDER MIDDLE SCHOOL-HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by ALEXANDER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Genesee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.