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Enrollment
400
Middle
DISTRICT 575 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360252000034
CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
254 EAST AVE, ALBION, NY 14411 · (585) 589-2020 · Orleans County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
9.5:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
252 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 | 149 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 27% |
| Grade 8 | 139 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL→CHARLES D'AMICO HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ALBION 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
32.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
57.4%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 57.4% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 56.7% |
% 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
48.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (48.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 400 | 63.0% | 48.0% |
| SOLVAY MIDDLE SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 414 | 61.4% | 41.0% |
| AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 587 | 64.6% | 49.9% |
| AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUBURN | 560 | 59.5% | 43.9% |
| BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL BATAVIA | 605 | 61.5% | 51.9% |
| OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL OLEAN | 534 | 61.0% | 35.8% |
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 CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #467 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #408 of 768 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #664 of 768 ▼ 55 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #434 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.5:1 | #208 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.9% | #432 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.0% | #329 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #477 of 524 |
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
400
-19 (-5%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 345
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 400 | 41.9 | 9.5:1 | 63% (252) |
| 2023-24 | 360 | 40.4 | 8.9:1 | 61% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 403 | 40.2 | 10.0:1 | 62% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 419 | 36 | 11.6:1 | 62% (258) |
| 2017-18 | 411 | 34 | 12.1:1 | 60% (245) |
| 2015-16 | 435 | 34 | 12.8:1 | 55% (240) |
| 2010-11 | 461 | 36 | 12.8:1 | 45% (207) |
| 2000-01 | 880 | 60 | 14.7:1 | 28% (245) |
| 1990-91 | 345 | 21 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a low-enrollment middle-grades school in ALBION, New York, administered by ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. In all, 400 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. That is 25% below the average of about 531 students for middle schools in New York.
ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 1,725 students in 3 schools, including CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About 74% of the student body at CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is White. Other students are 13% Hispanic and 11% Black. By comparison, Orleans County residents are about 86% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 43, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 41.9 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.5:1. Statewide, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 63% of the student body. On average, public schools in Orleans County report 55%.
Among New York public middle schools, CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 38%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL's results are 3.8 points below predicted: 48.0% against 51.8%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Orleans County show that median household income comes to about $65,969, roughly 18% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. The county's public schools total 13, with about 5,767 students.
CHARLES D'AMICO HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles from CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: 2. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Town: Distant, meaning it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
In 2020-21, CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolled 419 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 400. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 11.6:1 to 9.5:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Orleans County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
39,608
Census ACS
Median income
$65,969
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
5,767 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 826 students
- CHARLES D'AMICO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 499 students
Other schools in ALBION
- RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 826 students
- CHARLES D'AMICO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 499 students
Nearby schools
- CHARLES D'AMICO HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 499
- RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 826
- HOLLEY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL7.9 mi · 423
- HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.0 mi · 513
- KENDALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.4 mi · 368
- KENDALL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL9.8 mi · 311
Frequently asked questions
About CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 400 students in grades 06-08.
Is CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.5:1.
What is the student diversity at CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 74% White, 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian.
What district is CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.