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Enrollment
799
Middle
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL SQUARE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360690000999
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL
248 US RT 11, CENTRAL SQUARE, NY 13036 · (315) 668-4218 · Oswego County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL799 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of New York public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
10.1:1
79 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
354 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 | 239 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 261 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 289 | 36% |
| Ungraded | 10 | 1% |
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL→PAUL V MOORE HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within CENTRAL SQUARE 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
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
56.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 56.3% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 58.1% |
% 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
50.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (50.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 799 | 44.3% | 50.8% |
| PIONEER MIDDLE SCHOOL YORKSHIRE | 659 | 48.9% | 53.5% |
| MEXICO MIDDLE SCHOOL MEXICO | 628 | 48.6% | 44.0% |
| CORNING-PAINTED POST MIDDLE SCHOOL PAINTED POST | 925 | 48.6% | 51.2% |
| NORTH TONAWANDA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL NORTH TONAWANDA | 725 | 46.9% | 35.0% |
| OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL SOUTH GLENS FALLS | 631 | 38.7% | 56.5% |
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 CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oswego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #413 of 766 | #2 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #424 of 768 ▼ 52 | #1 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #533 of 768 ▲ 75 | #2 of 7 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 799 | #161 of 796 | #1 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #309 of 683 | #5 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.7% | #656 of 688 | #4 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.3% | #483 of 773 | #6 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #352 of 524 | 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
799
-9 (-1%) vs 2020
-32% since 2000-01, when it was 1,183
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 799 | 79 | 10.1:1 | 44% (354) |
| 2023-24 | 827 | 80.6 | 10.3:1 | 46% (381) |
| 2022-23 | 833 | 79.3 | 10.5:1 | 45% (377) |
| 2020-21 | 808 | 73 | 11.1:1 | 43% (349) |
| 2017-18 | 874 | 69.6 | 12.6:1 | 43% (372) |
| 2015-16 | 879 | 76 | 11.6:1 | 42% (371) |
| 2010-11 | 991 | 80 | 12.4:1 | 34% (338) |
| 2000-01 | 1,183 | 85 | 13.9:1 | 29% (338) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a high-enrollment middle school serving families in CENTRAL SQUARE, New York. The student body numbers 799 students, from grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in New York) has about 531 students.
The CENTRAL SQUARE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 6 schools and 3,458 students.
About 94% of the student body at CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL is White. Smaller groups are 2% Hispanic. The county population is about 92% White, within a few points of the school. The school's diversity index is 11%, meaning two students picked at random have an 11% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates with 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 10.1:1. That matches the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York fairly closely. About 44% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits.
allk12 grades CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL a C+. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the prediction is 58.7% and the result is 50.8%.
Oswego County has these Census figures: the median household income is $69,183, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. In all, Oswego County has 37 public schools and roughly 17,529 students.
The nearest other public school, MILLARD HAWK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 1.6 miles away. There are 4 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The school is in rural territory close to an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Fringe).
Federal data show 808 students in 2020-21 and 799 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
Conversations here can range across enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Oswego County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
117,953
Census ACS
Median income
$69,183
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
17,529 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CENTRAL SQUARE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PAUL V MOORE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,026 students
- MILLARD HAWK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 446 students
- HASTINGS MALLORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 407 students
- AURA A COLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 396 students
- BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 384 students
Other schools in CENTRAL SQUARE
- PAUL V MOORE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,026 students
- MILLARD HAWK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 446 students
- HASTINGS MALLORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 407 students
Nearby schools
- MILLARD HAWK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 446
- PAUL V MOORE HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,026
- BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 384
- HASTINGS MALLORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 407
- CICERO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.8 mi · 596
- AURA A COLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.9 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 799 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 79 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1.
How diverse is CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by CENTRAL SQUARE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.