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CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL
CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in CANANDAIGUA, New York, part of CANANDAIGUA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 687 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% bigger than the state mean of about 531.
Across the 3 schools in CANANDAIGUA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,118 students total), CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +0.3 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Ontario County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,324, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 27 public schools in Ontario County (combined enrollment of about 14,114 students).
CANANDAIGUA ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 60.7%.
CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.
Trend over the last 7 years. CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 793 (now 687). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.
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