Enrollment
345
Middle
DISTRICT 494 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOBBS FERRY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360912004681
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL
505 BROADWAY, DOBBS FERRY, NY 10522 · (914) 693-7640 · Westchester County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL345 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
9.2:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
60 students
DISTRICT 17% · 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 | 116 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 115 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 2% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL→DOBBS FERRY HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within DOBBS FERRY UNION FREE 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
80.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
86.6%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.0% | 86.6% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 89.5% |
% 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
80.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (80.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 345 | 17.4% | 80.5% |
| RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL MAMARONECK | 349 | 15.8% | 82.0% |
| LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL LOCUST VALLEY | 427 | 20.8% | 81.6% |
| LYNBROOK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL LYNBROOK | 414 | 11.6% | 65.6% |
| TUCKAHOE MIDDLE SCHOOL EASTCHESTER | 278 | 24.1% | 70.2% |
| UDALL ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST ISLIP | 438 | 22.4% | 56.9% |
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 DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.5% | #50 of 766 | #12 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.6% | #136 of 768 ▼ 24 | #20 of 40 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #44 of 768 ▲ 28 | #13 of 40 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 345 | #506 of 796 | #34 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.2:1 | #152 of 683 | #9 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.4% | #242 of 688 | #14 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.4% | #714 of 773 | #20 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.6% | #164 of 168 | #7 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
345
-15 (-4%) vs 2020
+55% since 1990-91, when it was 222
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 9.0:1
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 | 345 | 37.5 | 9.2:1 | 17% (60) |
| 2023-24 | 341 | 38.1 | 8.9:1 | 14% (49) |
| 2022-23 | 365 | 39 | 9.4:1 | 15% (55) |
| 2020-21 | 360 | 40 | 9.0:1 | 16% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 343 | 26 | 13.2:1 | 16% (56) |
| 2015-16 | 336 | 25 | 13.4:1 | 14% (48) |
| 2010-11 | 314 | 26 | 12.1:1 | 14% (45) |
| 2000-01 | 418 | 32 | 13.1:1 | 10% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 222 | 5 | 44.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL
This page covers DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL, a small middle-grades school in DOBBS FERRY, New York. The school enrolls 345 students in grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in New York average about 531 students, which makes this school 35% below average.
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports to DOBBS FERRY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 3 schools and 1,481 students.
Of every 100 students at DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 62 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 4% Black. The White share of the county population is lower, at 52%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 56%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.2:1. The school has 37.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for middle schools in New York is 10.3:1. In all, 17% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The 38% average for public schools in Westchester County is 21 points higher.
On the allk12 Grade, DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 90% of New York public middle schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL would score about 68.6%. It scores 80.5%, 11.9 points above that figure.
For Westchester County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $118,976, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 255 public schools and about 140,968 students.
DOBBS FERRY HIGH SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile from DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 83.7%, higher than DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL's 80.5%.
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The school's enrollment fell 4% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DOBBS FERRY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SPRINGHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 677 students
- DOBBS FERRY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 459 students
Other schools in DOBBS FERRY
- SPRINGHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 677 students
- DOBBS FERRY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 459 students
- CLARK ACADEMYHigh · 121 students
- GREENBURGH ELEVEN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 50 students
- GREENBURGH ELEVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCombined · 17 students
- GREENBURGH ELEVEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 14 students
Nearby schools
- DOBBS FERRY HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 459
- SPRINGHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 677
- CLARK ACADEMY0.9 mi · 121
- GREENBURGH ELEVEN HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 50
- GREENBURGH ELEVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 17
- GREENBURGH ELEVEN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 14
Frequently asked questions
About DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 345 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 9.2:1 (37 FTE teachers).
How diverse is DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 62% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% Black, 5% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by DOBBS FERRY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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