CAZENOVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in CAZENOVIA, New York, CAZENOVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a cozy junior high, one of the schools within CAZENOVIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 314 students across grades 5 through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 41% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

Across the 3 schools in CAZENOVIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,358 students total), CAZENOVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, CAZENOVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Madison County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAZENOVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.1%; this one delivers 59.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Madison County) records that median household earnings sit near $75,499, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. CAZENOVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 25 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 8,402 students).

The closest other public school is CAZENOVIA HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CAZENOVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 74.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CAZENOVIA MIDDLE SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 320 students in 2018 to 314 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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