CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

As a medium-sized elementary school in MEDINA, New York, CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serves 383 students from grades 3 through 6, overseen by MEDINA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within MEDINA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,335 students, CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL logs that 75% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Orleans County put the typical household earns roughly $65,969 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 13 public schools in Orleans County (combined enrollment of about 5,767 students).

The closest other public school is OAK ORCHARD PRIMARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has edged down 16%, going from 457 students in 2018 to 383 in 2025.

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