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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
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Enrollment
567
Middle
DISTRICT 673 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363078004144
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL
1445 CENTER RD, WEST SENECA, NY 14224 · (716) 677-3530 · Erie County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL567 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of New York public middle schools
- C+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
10.4:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
227 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 | 151 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 195 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 201 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 20 | 4% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
54.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 54.3% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 51.1% |
% 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
48.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% 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 EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (48.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 567 | 40.0% | 48.8% |
| HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOL HORSEHEADS | 564 | 38.8% | 60.4% |
| OSWEGO MIDDLE SCHOOL OSWEGO | 572 | 41.6% | 51.2% |
| MAINE-ENDWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL ENDWELL | 577 | 37.8% | 67.8% |
| HORSEHEADS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL HORSEHEADS | 529 | 40.3% | 43.9% |
| SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL SCOTIA | 489 | 35.8% | 68.5% |
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 EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #452 of 766 | #23 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #445 of 768 ▲ 3 | #22 of 32 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #445 of 768 ▲ 188 | #22 of 32 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 567 | #311 of 796 | #18 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #351 of 683 | #13 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.4% | #497 of 688 | #16 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.0% | #527 of 773 | #13 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.1% | #80 of 524 | #2 of 21 |
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
567
-219 (-28%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 712
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 567 | 54.5 | 10.4:1 | 40% (227) |
| 2023-24 | 591 | 58 | 10.2:1 | 41% (245) |
| 2022-23 | 582 | 58 | 10.0:1 | 53% (306) |
| 2020-21 | 786 | 65 | 12.1:1 | 42% (328) |
| 2017-18 | 800 | 57 | 14.0:1 | 41% (328) |
| 2015-16 | 835 | 59 | 14.2:1 | 40% (334) |
| 2010-11 | 449 | 36 | 12.5:1 | 26% (116) |
| 2000-01 | 546 | 39 | 14.0:1 | 19% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 712 | 44 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school in WEST SENECA, New York, according to federal school records. The student body numbers 567 students, from grades 6 through 8.
WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 9 schools with 5,870 students in all.
At EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, White students make up 79% of the student body. The school is also 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The school's diversity index is 36%, meaning two students picked at random have a 36% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1 at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 54.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 40%. The average for public schools in Erie County is 51%.
The allk12 Grade for EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is C. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 29% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 60.3%. EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 48.8%, 11.5 points below that line.
In the county around the school, Erie County, the median household income is $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 226 public schools in Erie County, enrolling about 122,519 students in all.
WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 28% enrollment decrease, from 786 in 2020-21 to 567 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 12.1:1 to 10.4:1.
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Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,069 students
- WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 779 students
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 778 students
- WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 629 students
- ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 509 students
Other schools in WEST SENECA
- WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,069 students
- WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 779 students
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 778 students
- WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 629 students
- ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 509 students
Other East Middle schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named East Middle. EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 12th largest of the 18.
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLBRENTWOOD, NY · 1,108 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLBINGHAMTON, NY · 465 students
- East Middle SchoolSioux City, IA · 1,076 students
- East Middle SchoolBraintree, MA · 999 students
- East Middle SchoolTRAVERSE CITY, MI · 829 students
Nearby schools
- WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 779
- WESTERN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER1.0 mi · 34
- CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 629
- NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 437
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 778
- WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.3 mi · 1,069
Frequently asked questions
About EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 567 students in grades 06-08.
Is EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.4:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 79% White, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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