Enrollment
251
Middle
DISTRICT 338 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELMIRA HEIGHTS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361059002828
COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL
100 ROBINWOOD AVE, ELMIRA HEIGHTS, NY 14903 · (607) 734-5078 · Chemung County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL251 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% 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.
- B-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
10.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
143 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 81 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 92 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 78 | 31% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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
COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL→THOMAS A EDISON HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ELMIRA HEIGHTS 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
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
54.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 54.1% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 51.5% |
% 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
54.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL
COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (54.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 251 | 57.0% | 54.1% |
| CORTLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CORTLAND | 274 | 57.3% | 45.8% |
| CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL CATTARAUGUS | 234 | 56.8% | 47.4% |
| LITTLE FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOL LITTLE FALLS | 233 | 54.1% | 57.5% |
| NORWOOD-NORFOLK MIDDLE SCHOOL NORWOOD | 276 | 57.2% | 46.3% |
| CLYDE-SAVANNAH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CLYDE | 180 | 58.3% | 35.7% |
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 COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #348 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #449 of 768 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #599 of 768 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 251 | #638 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #311 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.6% | #536 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.0% | #365 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.9% | #129 of 168 |
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
251
+16 (+7%) vs 2020
-19% since 2000-01, when it was 311
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 251 | 24.8 | 10.1:1 | 57% (143) |
| 2023-24 | 252 | 25.7 | 9.8:1 | 53% (133) |
| 2022-23 | 230 | 24.3 | 9.4:1 | 53% (121) |
| 2020-21 | 235 | 22 | 10.7:1 | 56% (131) |
| 2017-18 | 244 | 18 | 13.6:1 | 52% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 226 | 17 | 13.3:1 | 50% (114) |
| 2010-11 | 255 | 15 | 17.0:1 | 44% (111) |
| 2000-01 | 311 | 18 | 17.3:1 | 32% (99) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Federal records list COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL as a middle-grades school in ELMIRA HEIGHTS, New York. The school counted 251 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8. The school is 53% below the average for middle schools in New York.
ELMIRA HEIGHTS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 3 schools and 1,015 students, including COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
White students account for 82% of the school's enrollment. It is also 8% multiracial, 6% Black, and 4% Hispanic. Among Chemung County residents, the White share is about 85%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 32, compared with 70 nationally.
COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL has 24.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 10.1:1. That is in line with the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 57% at COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL. The average for public schools in Chemung County is similar, at 56%.
On the allk12 Grade, COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at B, ahead of 55% of New York public middle schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 54.0%. COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 54.1%.
The school's county is Chemung County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $63,716 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 27% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Chemung County with 23 other public schools.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL from the closest public school, COHEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd of 7 nearby schools, at 54.1% versus a 43.4% average.
NCES describes the area around COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL as Suburb: Small, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL had a net gain of 16 students, or 7%.
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Chemung County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
82,147
Census ACS
Median income
$63,716
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,788 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ELMIRA HEIGHTS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- COHEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 443 students
- THOMAS A EDISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 321 students
Other schools in ELMIRA HEIGHTS
- COHEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 443 students
- THOMAS A EDISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 321 students
Nearby schools
- COHEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 443
- THOMAS A EDISON HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 321
- FASSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 295
- DIVEN SCHOOL1.6 mi · 325
- ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY1.7 mi · 844
- FINN ACADEMY: AN ELMIRA CHARTER SCHOOL2.2 mi · 411
Frequently asked questions
About COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 251 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 82% White, 4% Hispanic, 6% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ELMIRA HEIGHTS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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