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What's one thing AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
560
Middle
DISTRICT 533 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360348000103
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
191 FRANKLIN ST, AUBURN, NY 13021 · (315) 255-8480 · Cayuga County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL560 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of New York public middle schools
- CTest 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
9.9:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
333 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 7 | 270 | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 284 | 51% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within AUBURN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 47.3% |
% 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
43.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (43.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 560 | 59.5% | 43.9% |
| OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL OLEAN | 534 | 61.0% | 35.8% |
| BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL BATAVIA | 605 | 61.5% | 51.9% |
| AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 587 | 64.6% | 49.9% |
| FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FULTON | 472 | 57.8% | 44.8% |
| SOLVAY MIDDLE SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 414 | 61.4% | 41.0% |
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 AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #546 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #488 of 768 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #597 of 768 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 560 | #316 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.9:1 | #269 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.6% | #414 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.5% | #346 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.5% | #393 of 524 |
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
560
-78 (-12%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 650
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 560 | 56.7 | 9.9:1 | 59% (333) |
| 2023-24 | 619 | 55.7 | 11.1:1 | 77% (475) |
| 2022-23 | 598 | 55.8 | 10.7:1 | 81% (484) |
| 2020-21 | 638 | 56 | 11.4:1 | 55% (351) |
| 2017-18 | 599 | 45 | 13.3:1 | 51% (303) |
| 2015-16 | 600 | 47 | 12.8:1 | 50% (299) |
| 2010-11 | 455 | 40 | 11.4:1 | 37% (169) |
| 2000-01 | 570 | 43 | 13.3:1 | 23% (133) |
| 1990-91 | 650 | 44 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-grades school in AUBURN, New York, reachable at (315) 255-8480. The latest federal count shows 560 students in grades 7 through 8.
Besides AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, AUBURN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 other schools. The district enrolls 3,732 students.
White students account for 73% of enrollment at AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Other groups make up 14% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 6% Black. Cayuga County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school's share is lower. AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has a diversity index of 45%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates with 56.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 9.9:1. Middle schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 10.3:1. About 59% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The rate at public schools in Cayuga County averages 50%, lower than here.
Measured against New York public middle schools, AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 53.1% for AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. The school posts 43.9%, 9.2 points below the prediction.
Cayuga County has about 75,102 residents, and median household income is about $67,904, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Cayuga County number 22 and enroll about 8,576.
The shortest distance from AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.5 miles, to HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL places 2nd of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES lists the school's locale as Town: Distant. That means it sits in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 12% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 9.9 students per teacher, compared with 11.4 in 2020-21.
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Cayuga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
75,102
Census ACS
Median income
$67,904
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
8,576 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in AUBURN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- AUBURN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- WILLIAM H SEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
- HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- CASEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 381 students
- GENESEE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 369 students
- OWASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
Other schools in AUBURN
- AUBURN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- WILLIAM H SEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
- HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- CASEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 381 students
- GENESEE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 369 students
- OWASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
Other Auburn Junior High schools
One other US public school is named Auburn Junior High. AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Auburn Junior High SchoolAuburn, AL · 1,491 students
Nearby schools
- HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 399
- OWASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 356
- CASEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 381
- WILLIAM H SEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 491
- HARRIET TUBMAN RESIDENTIAL CENTER2.1 mi · 20
- GENESEE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 369
Frequently asked questions
About AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 560 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 9.9:1 (57 FTE teachers).
How diverse is AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 73% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by AUBURN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Cayuga County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.