CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a compact intermediate school in CATTARAUGUS, New York, overseen by CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 234 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 56% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 809 students. CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.6:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.1%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of -6.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cattaraugus County put the typical household earns roughly $59,540 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cattaraugus County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,228 students), CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.6%.

CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 267 students in 2018 compared to 234 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 1% to 5%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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