EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL

EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is a 6-8 campus of reasonably sized scale in BINGHAMTON, New York, run under BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 465 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 10 schools and 4,531 students, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 31% White, 23% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 6%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Broome County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 31.0%, a residual of -14.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Broome County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,616 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Broome County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,594 students), of which EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CALVIN COOLIDGE SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 32.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 554 students in 2018 compared to 465 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 in 2025.

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