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Enrollment
810
Middle
DISTRICT 742 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361263001033
ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL
800 LONG POND RD, ROCHESTER, NY 14612 · (585) 966-8800 · Monroe County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL810 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% of New York public middle schools
- B-Test 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
372 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 261 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 255 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 276 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 18 | 2% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
97.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +38.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 97 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 38 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 97.0% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 58.7% |
% 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
53.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL
ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (53.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 810 | 45.9% | 53.8% |
| ARCADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 673 | 50.2% | 53.5% |
| LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL LAGRANGEVILLE | 817 | 46.3% | 39.8% |
| HAVILAND MIDDLE SCHOOL HYDE PARK | 757 | 48.1% | 54.8% |
| INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL PHILADELPHIA | 730 | 47.9% | 59.8% |
| HERBERT HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL BUFFALO | 772 | 46.2% | 49.0% |
Matched among New York middle 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 ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.8% | #353 of 766 | #17 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 97.0% | #69 of 768 ▲ 298 | #8 of 29 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #582 of 768 ▼ 47 | #21 of 28 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 810 | #153 of 796 | #7 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #358 of 683 | #23 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.8% | #121 of 688 | #9 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.9% | #460 of 773 | #18 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.9% | #105 of 168 | #5 of 9 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
810
+38 (+5%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 1,058
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 810 | 77.5 | 10.4:1 | 46% (372) |
| 2023-24 | 777 | 72.5 | 10.7:1 | 55% (424) |
| 2022-23 | 778 | 70.5 | 11.0:1 | 57% (447) |
| 2020-21 | 772 | 62 | 12.4:1 | 53% (413) |
| 2017-18 | 772 | 58 | 13.3:1 | 47% (361) |
| 2015-16 | 806 | 67 | 12.0:1 | 40% (320) |
| 2010-11 | 893 | 69 | 12.9:1 | 33% (295) |
| 2000-01 | 1,043 | 69 | 15.1:1 | 17% (179) |
| 1990-91 | 1,058 | 73 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL
ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a high-enrollment middle school found in ROCHESTER, New York. There are 810 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. The school is 53% above the average for middle schools in New York.
The district for ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL is GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 17 schools and 9,935 students.
Federal enrollment data show ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL is 53% White. Next come 17% Black, 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 5% Asian. The county population is about 70% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 77.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is close to this figure. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 46% of the student body.
ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 47% of New York public middle schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL's results are 4.3 points below predicted: 53.8% against 58.1%.
For the population of Monroe County, median household income comes to about $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Monroe County's 186 public schools enroll about 106,108 students and include ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL.
ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile from ATHENA HIGH SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment rose 5% over 4 years, reaching 810 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.4:1 in 2020-21, and 10.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,090 students
- ATHENA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,070 students
- ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 972 students
- ODYSSEY ACADEMYHigh · 878 students
- LONGRIDGE SCHOOLElementary · 754 students
- ARCADIA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 673 students
Other schools in ROCHESTER
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 1Combined · 1,405 students
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,164 students
- IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
Nearby schools
- ATHENA HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,070
- PINE BROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 429
- GREECE COMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER1.0 mi · 269
- RENAISSANCE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS1.2 mi · 500
- AUTUMN LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 341
- ARCADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 673
Frequently asked questions
About ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 810 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.4:1 (78 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 53% White, 17% Hispanic, 17% Black, 5% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.