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Enrollment
586
Middle
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363012004047
CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL
1237 WASHINGTON ST, WATERTOWN, NY 13601 · (315) 785-3870 · Jefferson County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% 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.
- 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
11.4:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
404 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 | 288 | 49% |
| Grade 8 | 278 | 47% |
| Ungraded | 20 | 3% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL→WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within WATERTOWN CITY 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
30.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
47.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.0% | 47.3% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 42.4% |
% 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
47.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL
CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (47.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 586 | 68.9% | 47.4% |
| HAROLD T WILEY SCHOOL WATERTOWN | 614 | 72.0% | 29.8% |
| EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 571 | 70.9% | 34.8% |
| AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 587 | 64.6% | 49.9% |
| GLOVERSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL GLOVERSVILLE | 579 | 72.9% | 24.7% |
| BATAVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL BATAVIA | 605 | 61.5% | 51.9% |
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 CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #476 of 766 | #5 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #549 of 768 ▲ 35 | #5 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #694 of 768 ▼ 55 | #6 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #294 of 796 | #4 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #502 of 683 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #307 of 688 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.9% | #299 of 773 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.0% | #51 of 168 | N/A |
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
586
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 719
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 586 | 51.2 | 11.4:1 | 69% (404) |
| 2023-24 | 591 | 47 | 12.6:1 | 65% (385) |
| 2022-23 | 626 | 44.2 | 14.2:1 | 70% (439) |
| 2020-21 | 591 | 45 | 13.1:1 | 76% (451) |
| 2017-18 | 523 | 45.1 | 11.6:1 | 81% (425) |
| 2015-16 | 554 | 43 | 12.9:1 | 64% (355) |
| 2010-11 | 592 | 52 | 11.4:1 | 51% (303) |
| 2000-01 | 710 | 50 | 14.2:1 | 45% (323) |
| 1990-91 | 719 | 52 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL
CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school in WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, located in WATERTOWN, New York. It reported 586 students in grades 7 through 8 in 2024-25.
WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT has 3,940 students in 8 schools, and CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The student body at CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 67% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 7% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 83%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 52%.
The school has 51.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.4 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in New York is 10.3:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 69% of the student body. On average, public schools in Jefferson County report 49%.
Among New York public middle schools, CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 40%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
A school with CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 49.6%. CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 47.4%, 2.2 points below that line.
The school is in Jefferson County, where the median household earns about $66,301 a year, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Jefferson County with 38 other public schools.
WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest public school to CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 591 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 586. Students per teacher dropped from 13.1 in 2020-21 to 11.4 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,040
Census ACS
Median income
$66,301
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
16,789 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,181 students
- HAROLD T WILEY SCHOOLMiddle · 614 students
- NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 435 students
- KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOLElementary · 340 students
- SHERMAN SCHOOLElementary · 323 students
- OHIO STREET SCHOOLElementary · 308 students
Other schools in WATERTOWN
- WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,181 students
- HAROLD T WILEY SCHOOLMiddle · 614 students
- NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 435 students
- KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOLElementary · 340 students
- SHERMAN SCHOOLElementary · 323 students
- OHIO STREET SCHOOLElementary · 308 students
Nearby schools
- WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,181
- HAROLD T WILEY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 614
- SHERMAN SCHOOL0.4 mi · 323
- KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 340
- OHIO STREET SCHOOL1.7 mi · 308
- NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 435
Frequently asked questions
About CASE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 586 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 11.4:1 (51 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 67% White, 13% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.