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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
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Enrollment
605
Middle
DISTRICT 537 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BATAVIA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360399000157
BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL
96 ROSS ST, BATAVIA, NY 14020 · (585) 343-2480 · Genesee County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL605 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% 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.
- B-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
8.8:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
372 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 5 | 143 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 170 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 143 | 24% |
| Grade 8 | 139 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 10 | 2% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL→BATAVIA HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within BATAVIA 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
43.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
53.5%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 53.5% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 48.6% |
% 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
51.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL
BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (51.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 605 | 61.5% | 51.9% |
| AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 587 | 64.6% | 49.9% |
| AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUBURN | 560 | 59.5% | 43.9% |
| ROXBORO ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 697 | 57.7% | 34.5% |
| PORT JERVIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT JERVIS | 549 | 59.4% | 54.9% |
| CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL WATERTOWN | 586 | 68.9% | 47.4% |
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 BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #396 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #457 of 768 ▲ 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #452 of 768 ▼ 64 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 605 | #278 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.8:1 | #102 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.2% | #292 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.5% | #335 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #235 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
605
-54 (-8%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 579
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 8.7:1
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 | 605 | 68.7 | 8.8:1 | 61% (372) |
| 2023-24 | 612 | 79.2 | 7.7:1 | 66% (402) |
| 2022-23 | 595 | 72.3 | 8.2:1 | 54% (320) |
| 2020-21 | 659 | 76 | 8.7:1 | 58% (381) |
| 2017-18 | 704 | 66 | 10.7:1 | 58% (410) |
| 2015-16 | 684 | 65 | 10.5:1 | 54% (368) |
| 2010-11 | 542 | 49 | 11.1:1 | 49% (267) |
| 2000-01 | 640 | 49 | 13.1:1 | 31% (200) |
| 1990-91 | 579 | 44 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL
BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle school in BATAVIA, New York, under BATAVIA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The latest federal count shows 605 students in grades 5 through 8.
The district, BATAVIA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 4 schools serving 2,147 students.
A majority of students at BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL, 66%, are White. The rest of enrollment is 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, and 8% multiracial. Among all residents of Genesee County, the White share is about 89%. The chance that two students picked at random at BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 53%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 8.8:1, with 68.7 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. For comparison, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 61%. Across public schools in Genesee County, the average is 45%.
Measured against New York public middle schools, BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 51.9% and a predicted 52.4%.
In the county around the school, Genesee County, 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. BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is among the 21 public schools in Genesee County.
The closest public school, JOHN KENNEDY SCHOOL, is about 0.5 miles from BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Around the school, 4 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Distant: the school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Federal counts put enrollment at 659 in 2020-21 and 605 in 2024-25, an 8% decrease.
Community posts for BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL can cover science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 BATAVIA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BATAVIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 646 students
- JOHN KENNEDY SCHOOLElementary · 499 students
- JACKSON SCHOOLElementary · 397 students
Other schools in BATAVIA
- BATAVIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 646 students
- JOHN KENNEDY SCHOOLElementary · 499 students
- JACKSON SCHOOLElementary · 397 students
- NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDCombined · 51 students
Other Batavia Middle schools
One other US public school is named Batavia Middle. BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Batavia Middle SchoolBatavia, OH · 584 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN KENNEDY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 499
- NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND0.7 mi · 51
- JACKSON SCHOOL0.9 mi · 397
- BATAVIA HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 646
- ELBA JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL5.3 mi · 185
- ELBA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.3 mi · 225
Frequently asked questions
About BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 605 students in grades 05-08.
What grades does BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 05-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 8.8:1 (69 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 66% White, 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of BATAVIA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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