EAST AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL

EAST AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier middle-grades schools in EAST AURORA, New York, run under EAST AURORA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 504 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 9.

EAST AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by EAST AURORA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 1,750 students overall.

In terms of who attends, EAST AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EAST AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.1%, the actual is 74.7%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), EAST AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PARKDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, EAST AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 69.0%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EAST AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked down 5%, going from 531 students in 2018 to 504 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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