CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL

CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as an intimate intermediate school in CAIRO, New York, run under CAIRO-DURHAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 272 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% leaner than the state mean of about 531.

CAIRO-DURHAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,037 students. CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.2%; this one delivers 54.8%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,945, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Greene County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,042 students), CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL has held roughly steady, going from 270 students in 2018 to 272 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 7% to 15%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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