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What's the vibe like in the hallways at CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL right now?
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Enrollment
693
Middle
DISTRICT 709 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST GENESEE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363063004111
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL
5525 IKE DIXON RD, CAMILLUS, NY 13031 · (315) 672-3159 · Onondaga County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL693 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of New York public middle schools
- A-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
10.7:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
213 students
DISTRICT 27% · 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 | 335 | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 350 | 51% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 1% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL→WEST GENESEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within WEST GENESEE 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
58.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
80.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 80.1% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 76.9% |
% 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
67.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (67.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 693 | 30.7% | 67.6% |
| WEST GENESEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL CAMILLUS | 724 | 27.9% | 57.4% |
| EDWARD TOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL SANBORN | 723 | 34.6% | 57.3% |
| ONONDAGA HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 575 | 32.5% | 56.6% |
| WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST SENECA | 778 | 34.3% | 50.3% |
| MERTON WILLIAMS MIDDLE SCHOOL HILTON | 615 | 27.6% | 65.1% |
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 CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Onondaga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.6% | #170 of 766 | #6 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #190 of 768 ▲ 14 | #4 of 24 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #227 of 768 no change | #7 of 24 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 693 | #212 of 796 | #7 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #410 of 683 | #16 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.3% | #485 of 688 | #17 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.7% | #608 of 773 | #17 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +72.4% | #4 of 168 | #1 of 7 |
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
693
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
+57% since 1990-91, when it was 440
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 693 | 64.7 | 10.7:1 | 31% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 664 | 63.8 | 10.4:1 | 32% (210) |
| 2022-23 | 668 | 59.2 | 11.3:1 | 31% (207) |
| 2020-21 | 692 | 47 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 402 | 29 | 13.9:1 | 19% (76) |
| 2015-16 | 443 | 35 | 12.7:1 | 17% (77) |
| 2010-11 | 514 | 36 | 14.3:1 | 13% (68) |
| 2000-01 | 523 | 38 | 13.8:1 | 8% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 440 | 31 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle-grades school in CAMILLUS, New York, one of the schools in WEST GENESEE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolled 693 students in grades 7 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 31% higher than the average for middle schools in New York, which is about 531.
WEST GENESEE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT serves 4,543 students across 7 schools.
By race and ethnicity, CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 78% White. The rest of enrollment is 9% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. The White share in Onondaga County as a whole is similar, at about 75%. The chance that two students picked at random at CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 37%.
Federal staffing data show 64.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL and a ratio of 10.7:1. Middle schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 10.3:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 31% of enrollment. That is 18 points below the 49% average for public schools in Onondaga County.
Measured against New York public middle schools, CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 63.7%. CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 67.6%, 4.0 points above that line.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Onondaga County show that median household income is about $76,945, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County, which together enroll about 67,044 students.
EAST HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 2.6 miles away in a straight line. There are 7 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.
In 2020-21, CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolled 692; in 2024-25, 693. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.7:1) than in 2020-21 (14.7:1).
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Onondaga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
471,129
Census ACS
Median income
$76,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
67,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WEST GENESEE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WEST GENESEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,385 students
- STONEHEDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 759 students
- WEST GENESEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 724 students
- EAST HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 336 students
- SPLIT ROCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 324 students
- ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 322 students
Other schools in CAMILLUS
- WEST GENESEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,385 students
- STONEHEDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 759 students
- WEST GENESEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 724 students
- EAST HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 336 students
- SPLIT ROCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 324 students
Nearby schools
- EAST HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 336
- MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL3.3 mi · 435
- STONEHEDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.3 mi · 759
- WEST GENESEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL3.4 mi · 724
- K C HEFFERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 471
- WEST GENESEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL3.6 mi · 1,385
Frequently asked questions
About CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 693 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 07-08.
How many teachers does CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 65 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.7:1.
How diverse is CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 78% White, 4% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
CAMILLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of WEST GENESEE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.