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Enrollment
677
Middle
DISTRICT 774 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360723005572
CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL
3600 UNION RD, CHEEKTOWAGA, NY 14225 · (716) 686-3660 · Erie County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL677 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of New York public middle schools
- CTest 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
10.6:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
489 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 5 | 172 | 25% |
| Grade 6 | 159 | 23% |
| Grade 7 | 178 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 159 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 1% |
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL→CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within CHEEKTOWAGA 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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
48.6%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 48.6% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
43.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL
CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (43.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 677 | 72.2% | 43.2% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL UTICA | 687 | 78.5% | 52.6% |
| STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ALBANY | 570 | 66.0% | 35.5% |
| ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 657 | 79.5% | 33.5% |
| NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL ALBANY | 588 | 71.3% | 32.4% |
| JHS 278 MARINE PARK BROOKLYN | 841 | 79.9% | 52.1% |
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 CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #562 of 766 | #27 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.6% | #523 of 768 ▲ 121 | #26 of 32 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #502 of 768 ▲ 119 | #23 of 32 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 677 | #218 of 796 | #12 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #385 of 683 | #17 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.6% | #22 of 688 | #1 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.2% | #275 of 773 | #3 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.4% | #66 of 168 | #4 of 9 |
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
677
+44 (+7%) vs 2020
+27% since 2010-11, when it was 531
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 11.5:1
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 | 677 | 64 | 10.6:1 | 72% (489) |
| 2023-24 | 661 | 61.7 | 10.7:1 | 72% (474) |
| 2022-23 | 627 | 59.9 | 10.5:1 | 68% (428) |
| 2020-21 | 633 | 55 | 11.5:1 | 63% (400) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 55.6 | 11.1:1 | 59% (365) |
| 2015-16 | 620 | 48 | 12.9:1 | 68% (421) |
| 2010-11 | 531 | 46 | 11.5:1 | 51% (272) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL
CHEEKTOWAGA, New York, is home to CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL, a mid-sized middle school. Enrollment totals 677 students across grades 5 through 8. On average, middle schools in New York enroll around 531, and this school is 27% larger than that mark.
CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 3 schools in CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 2,322 students in total.
The largest group at CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL is White students, at 33%. After that, the student body is 33% Black, 19% Asian, 9% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Census figures show Erie County is about 74% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 74%.
Staffing at CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL comes to 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.6:1. The average ratio among middle schools in New York is similar, at 10.3:1. CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL counts 72% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 51% average for public schools in Erie County.
On the allk12 Grade, CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at C, ahead of 29% of New York public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL is -5.2 points: 43.2% actual, 48.4% predicted.
Census data for Erie County show median household income comes to about $72,839, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county has 226 public schools and about 122,519 students.
CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL sits less than a tenth of a mile from CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL places 5th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 677, up from 633 in 2020-21.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 963 students
- CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 682 students
Other schools in CHEEKTOWAGA
- UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 963 students
- CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 682 students
- CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 661 students
- MARYVALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 660 students
- MARYVALE PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 568 students
- MARYVALE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 518 students
Nearby schools
- CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 682
- UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 963
- MARYVALE PRIMARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 568
- MARYVALE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 518
- MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 490
- MARYVALE HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 660
Frequently asked questions
About CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 677 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.6:1 (64 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 33% White, 9% Hispanic, 33% Black, 19% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Erie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.