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What's one thing CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
905
Middle
DISTRICT 597 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CORNWALL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360843005575
CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL
122 MAIN ST, CORNWALL, NY 12518 · (845) 534-8009 · Orange County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL905 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of New York public middle schools
- A-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
11.8:1
76 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
206 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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 | 237 | 26% |
| Grade 6 | 230 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 197 | 22% |
| Grade 8 | 237 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL→CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within CORNWALL 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
67.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
80.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 80.1% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 78.1% |
% 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
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL
CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 905 | 22.8% | 71.3% |
| SCHOOL 9M-OCEANSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL OCEANSIDE | 801 | 21.0% | 69.6% |
| HOWITT SCHOOL FARMINGDALE | 1,180 | 27.8% | 57.8% |
| WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WEST BABYLON | 817 | 25.0% | 59.4% |
| MAHOPAC MIDDLE SCHOOL MAHOPAC | 902 | 22.5% | 64.5% |
| RONKONKOMA MIDDLE SCHOOL RONKONKOMA | 641 | 27.1% | 56.7% |
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 CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #124 of 766 | #2 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #191 of 768 ▲ 3 | #2 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #130 of 768 ▼ 26 | #2 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 905 | #110 of 796 | #4 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #539 of 683 | #15 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.0% | #149 of 688 | #5 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.8% | #678 of 773 | #15 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.1% | #291 of 524 | #3 of 12 |
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
905
-40 (-4%) vs 2020
-14% since 2010-11, when it was 1,048
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
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 | 905 | 76.5 | 11.8:1 | 23% (206) |
| 2023-24 | 903 | 83 | 10.9:1 | 8% (75) |
| 2022-23 | 895 | 78.2 | 11.4:1 | 22% (194) |
| 2020-21 | 945 | 82 | 11.5:1 | 25% (233) |
| 2017-18 | 1,018 | 70 | 14.5:1 | 18% (185) |
| 2015-16 | 1,050 | 67 | 15.7:1 | 13% (134) |
| 2010-11 | 1,048 | 71 | 14.8:1 | 12% (128) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL
CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a large middle school in CORNWALL, New York. Federal data show 905 students enrolled in grades 5 through 8 in 2024-25. Middle schools in New York average about 531 students, which makes this school 70% above average.
CORNWALL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 2,985 students in 5 schools, and CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
About 53% of the student body at CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL is White. Other groups make up 28% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 7% Black, and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 62% of Orange County residents are White. A diversity index of 63% means there is a 63% chance two randomly chosen students at CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school's 76.5 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.8:1. Middle schools in New York have an average ratio of 10.3:1. At CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL, 23% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Orange County report 44%.
On the allk12 Grade, CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 79% of New York public middle schools.
CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 71.3%, compared with a predicted 66.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Orange County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $97,178 a year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL, Orange County has 82 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, CORNWALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest at about 0.3 miles. CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in 4th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL as Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolled 945 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 905.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CORNWALL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,010 students
- CORNWALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 595 students
- CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 239 students
- WILLOW AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 236 students
Other schools in CORNWALL
- CORNWALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 595 students
- WILLOW AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 236 students
Nearby schools
- CORNWALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 595
- WILLOW AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 236
- CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 239
- KAPLAN CAREER ACADEMY1.3 mi · 89
- VAILS GATE STEAM ACADEMY1.8 mi · 500
- CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 1,010
Frequently asked questions
About CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 905 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.8:1 students per teacher at CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 53% White, 28% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by CORNWALL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.