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Enrollment
655
Middle
DISTRICT 693 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360000404544
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL
2070 CURRY RD, SCHENECTADY, NY 12303 · (518) 356-8350 · Schenectady County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL655 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 34% 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.
- 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
11.6:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
270 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 6 | 200 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 228 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 218 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 1% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL→MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN 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
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
100.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +55.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 100 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 55 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 100.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 44.7% |
% 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
50.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (50.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 655 | 41.2% | 50.5% |
| HERBERT HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL BUFFALO | 772 | 46.2% | 49.0% |
| BEN FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL BUFFALO | 654 | 46.3% | 42.1% |
| EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST SENECA | 567 | 40.0% | 48.8% |
| CRISPELL MIDDLE SCHOOL PINE BUSH | 614 | 45.8% | 56.8% |
| PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL EAST SYRACUSE | 697 | 44.5% | 59.0% |
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 DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #416 of 766 | #5 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 100% | #1 of 768 ▲ 548 | #1 of 9 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #525 of 768 ▲ 13 | #5 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 655 | #229 of 796 | #3 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #511 of 683 | #9 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #259 of 688 | #6 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.2% | #517 of 773 | #4 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.0% | #83 of 168 | N/A |
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
655
-16 (-2%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 663
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 655 | 56.6 | 11.6:1 | 41% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 680 | 58.2 | 11.7:1 | 46% (313) |
| 2022-23 | 646 | 58.9 | 11.0:1 | 46% (295) |
| 2020-21 | 671 | 56 | 12.0:1 | 43% (291) |
| 2017-18 | 612 | 44 | 13.9:1 | 39% (240) |
| 2015-16 | 630 | 43 | 14.7:1 | 37% (234) |
| 2010-11 | 725 | 54 | 13.4:1 | 27% (197) |
| 2000-01 | 812 | 52 | 15.6:1 | 17% (139) |
| 1990-91 | 663 | 37 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school that serves part of SCHENECTADY, New York. The school counted 655 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8. That is 23% larger than the average of about 531 students for middle schools in New York.
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits within ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 4 schools and 2,772 students.
More than half of enrollment at DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL is White: 65%. Next come 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, and 5% Asian. The diversity index for DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 11.6:1, based on 56.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Lunch program data show 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 50% for public schools in Schenectady County.
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 34% of New York public middle schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL's results are 9.3 points below predicted: 50.5% against 59.8%.
Census data for Schenectady County show median household income comes to about $79,623, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 40 public schools in the county, enrolling about 21,555, DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
Measured in a straight line, MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles from DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 50.5% is above the 37.6% average for nearby schools.
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 671 in 2020-21 and 655 in 2024-25.
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Schenectady County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,369
Census ACS
Median income
$79,623
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
21,555 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 924 students
- HERMAN L BRADT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 591 students
Other schools in SCHENECTADY
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,379 students
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 924 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 671 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 614 students
Nearby schools
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 924
- HERMAN L BRADT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 602
- VAN CORLAER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 311
- HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 440
- PINE BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 462
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 591
Frequently asked questions
About DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 655 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 65% White, 12% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.