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What's the one class at BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
1,094
Middle
DISTRICT 775 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362271003191
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL
1760 SCRIBNER RD, PENFIELD, NY 14526 · (585) 249-6450 · Monroe County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,094 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
11.4:1
96 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
260 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 | 361 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 337 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 391 | 36% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 0% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL→PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within PENFIELD CENTRAL 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
67.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
77.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 77.8% |
| 2023-24 | 62.0% | 80.2% |
% 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
73.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% 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 BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (73.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,094 | 23.8% | 73.3% |
| VICTOR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL VICTOR | 989 | 27.9% | 56.9% |
| SPRY MIDDLE SCHOOL WEBSTER | 870 | 27.1% | 70.4% |
| CLARENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL CLARENCE | 954 | 19.1% | 72.7% |
| LANCASTER MIDDLE SCHOOL LANCASTER | 876 | 26.0% | 62.5% |
| HOWARD L GOFF SCHOOL EAST GREENBUSH | 948 | 28.1% | 74.0% |
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 BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #97 of 766 | #4 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.8% | #208 of 768 ▼ 35 | #13 of 29 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #137 of 768 ▼ 2 | #6 of 28 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,094 | #56 of 796 | #2 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #489 of 683 | #28 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.5% | #515 of 688 | #28 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.8% | #672 of 773 | #30 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.4% | #113 of 168 | #6 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
1,094
+50 (+5%) vs 2020
+78% since 1990-91, when it was 616
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 1,094 | 96.1 | 11.4:1 | 24% (260) |
| 2023-24 | 1,104 | 98.8 | 11.2:1 | 22% (241) |
| 2022-23 | 1,113 | 97.8 | 11.4:1 | 23% (251) |
| 2020-21 | 1,044 | 97 | 10.8:1 | 22% (225) |
| 2017-18 | 1,048 | 97.6 | 10.7:1 | 21% (215) |
| 2015-16 | 1,010 | 93 | 10.9:1 | 15% (154) |
| 2010-11 | 1,059 | 94 | 11.3:1 | 10% (105) |
| 2000-01 | 1,238 | 109 | 11.4:1 | 8% (93) |
| 1990-91 | 616 | 65 | 9.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL runs as a large middle school in PENFIELD, New York. The school's 1,094 students are in grades 6 through 8. Statewide, middle schools in New York average about 531 students each.
PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 4,651 students in 6 schools, including BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Federal enrollment data show BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is 80% White. The school is also 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Black, and 4% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 70%. The school's diversity index is 34%, meaning two students picked at random have a 34% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The count of teachers at BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is 96.1 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 11.4:1. That is higher than the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. The school counts 260 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 24%. For comparison, public schools in Monroe County average 50%.
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded A by allk12, scoring above 85% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL, the prediction is 66.3% and the result is 73.3%.
In Monroe County (population about 753,753), the median household income is $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the poverty rate is about 9%. There are 186 public schools in Monroe County, enrolling about 106,108 students in all.
The closest public school, SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile from BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 63.0%; BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL's is 73.3%, ranking 3rd of 9.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
2024-25 enrollment was 1,094, a 5% gain from 1,044 in 2020-21.
The BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,442 students
- SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 549 students
- INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 545 students
- COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 479 students
Other schools in PENFIELD
- PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,442 students
- SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 549 students
- COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 479 students
Nearby schools
- SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 549
- COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 542
- PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,442
- PLANK ROAD SOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 562
- PLANK ROAD NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 499
- INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 545
Frequently asked questions
About BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,094 students in grades 06-08.
Is BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 80% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.