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Enrollment
534
Middle
DISTRICT 435 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HENDRICK HUDSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361419001161
BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
7 FURNACE WOODS RD, CORTLANDT MANOR, NY 10567 · (914) 257-5700 · Westchester County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL534 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 58% 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.
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
9.3:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
194 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 | 187 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 178 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 162 | 30% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 1% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL→HENDRICK HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within HENDRICK HUDSON 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
48.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
63.9%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 63.9% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 68.9% |
% 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
59.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (59.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 534 | 36.3% | 59.5% |
| FOX LANE MIDDLE SCHOOL BEDFORD | 767 | 35.2% | 69.0% |
| NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS BROOKLYN | 546 | 40.5% | 85.6% |
| ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL ISLIP | 601 | 44.4% | 44.6% |
| MARLBORO MIDDLE SCHOOL MARLBORO | 440 | 38.0% | 63.7% |
| HENRY H WELLS MIDDLE SCHOOL BREWSTER | 656 | 38.1% | 49.6% |
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 BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.5% | #267 of 766 | #27 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #331 of 768 ▼ 54 | #30 of 40 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #371 of 768 ▲ 67 | #31 of 40 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 534 | #335 of 796 | #22 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #173 of 683 | #11 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.6% | #152 of 688 | #4 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.3% | #559 of 773 | #13 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.9% | #471 of 524 | #27 of 30 |
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
534
+46 (+9%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 452
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 8.4:1
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 | 534 | 57.1 | 9.3:1 | 36% (194) |
| 2023-24 | 528 | 55.2 | 9.6:1 | 31% (166) |
| 2022-23 | 489 | 56.2 | 8.7:1 | 31% (152) |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 58 | 8.4:1 | 29% (141) |
| 2017-18 | 550 | 51 | 10.8:1 | 26% (144) |
| 2015-16 | 595 | 50 | 11.9:1 | 23% (139) |
| 2010-11 | 648 | 50 | 13.0:1 | 18% (118) |
| 2000-01 | 673 | 54 | 12.5:1 | 5% (33) |
| 1990-91 | 452 | 45 | 10.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school with a street address in CORTLANDT MANOR, New York. The school enrolls 534 students in grades 6 through 8.
HENDRICK HUDSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools with a combined 2,173 students. BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of them.
The largest group at BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is White students, at 46%. Smaller groups are 40% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 63%.
BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL reported 57.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 9.3:1. Middle schools in New York have an average ratio of 10.3:1. Roughly 36% of students at BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Westchester County average a similar 38%.
Among New York public middle schools, BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 58%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 59.5% actual against 61.6% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Westchester County, the median household earns about $118,976 a year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Westchester County has 255 public schools with about 140,968 students, including BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL in rural territory close to an urban area (Rural: Fringe).
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 534, up from 488 in 2020-21.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HENDRICK HUDSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HENDRICK HUDSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 729 students
- FRANK G LINDSEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 472 students
- BUCHANAN-VERPLANCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
- FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 214 students
Other schools in CORTLANDT MANOR
- WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 845 students
- FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 214 students
Other Blue Mountain Middle schools
One other US public school is named Blue Mountain Middle. BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Blue Mountain Middle SchoolOrwigsburg, PA · 561 students
Nearby schools
- FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 214
- WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 845
- WOODSIDE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 511
- PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 1,178
- HENDRICK HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 729
- PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 860
Frequently asked questions
About BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 534 students in grades 06-08.
Is BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 57 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.3:1.
What is the student diversity at BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 46% White, 40% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HENDRICK HUDSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.