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What's one thing ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
844
Middle
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361056000814
ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY
933 HOFFMAN ST, ELMIRA, NY 14905 · (607) 735-3100 · Chemung County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL844 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of New York public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.7:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
595 students
DISTRICT 73% · 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 7 | 431 | 51% |
| Grade 8 | 412 | 49% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ELMIRA CITY 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
22.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
40.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.0% | 40.3% |
| 2023-24 | 23.0% | 36.5% |
% 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
42.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY
ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY's state test result (42.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY this school | 844 | 70.5% | 42.9% |
| EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 571 | 70.9% | 34.8% |
| HAROLD T WILEY SCHOOL WATERTOWN | 614 | 72.0% | 29.8% |
| CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL WATERTOWN | 586 | 68.9% | 47.4% |
| AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 587 | 64.6% | 49.9% |
| GLOVERSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL GLOVERSVILLE | 579 | 72.9% | 24.7% |
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 ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #567 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #630 of 768 ▲ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #743 of 768 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 844 | #135 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #602 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.1% | #342 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.5% | #290 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.7% | #161 of 168 |
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
844
-77 (-8%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 966
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 844 | 66.5 | 12.7:1 | 70% (595) |
| 2023-24 | 797 | 65 | 12.3:1 | 66% (523) |
| 2022-23 | 802 | 70.5 | 11.4:1 | 66% (527) |
| 2020-21 | 921 | 64 | 14.4:1 | 60% (557) |
| 2017-18 | 838 | 70 | 12.0:1 | 62% (522) |
| 2015-16 | 888 | 65 | 13.7:1 | 58% (511) |
| 2010-11 | 853 | 62 | 13.8:1 | 47% (400) |
| 2000-01 | 984 | 64 | 15.4:1 | 32% (311) |
| 1990-91 | 966 | 63 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY.
About ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY
Students in ELMIRA, New York, attend ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY, a high-enrollment middle-grades school. It reported 844 students in grades 7 through 8 in 2024-25. Middle schools in New York have about 531 students on average; enrollment here is 59% higher.
ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY and 10 other schools, with 5,322 students in total.
The largest group at ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY is White students, at 68%. Enrollment also includes 14% Black, 14% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Among people living in Chemung County, the White share is about 85%. The diversity index for ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY is 50%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 66.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.7:1. Middle schools in New York average 10.3:1, 2.4 fewer students per teacher than here. Roughly 70% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Chemung County average 56%.
Among New York public middle schools, ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY outscored 26%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 49.1% for ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY. The school posts 42.9%, 6.2 points below the prediction.
The county, Chemung County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $63,716 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Chemung County has 24 public schools with about 10,788 students, including ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY.
A public school about 1.2 miles away, FASSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY. Among its closest neighbors with test data, ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY is 2nd of 6 on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 77 students, from 921 to 844. Federal data show the ratio falling from 14.4:1 to 12.7:1.
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Chemung County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
82,147
Census ACS
Median income
$63,716
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,788 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,273 students
- HENDY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- PARLEY COBURN SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- BROADWAY ACADEMYHigh · 379 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 375 students
- BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 364 students
Other schools in ELMIRA
- ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,273 students
- FINN ACADEMY: AN ELMIRA CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 411 students
- HENDY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- PARLEY COBURN SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- BROADWAY ACADEMYHigh · 379 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 375 students
Nearby schools
- FASSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 295
- FINN ACADEMY: AN ELMIRA CHARTER SCHOOL1.4 mi · 411
- DIVEN SCHOOL1.4 mi · 325
- HENDY AVENUE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 391
- COHEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 443
- COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 251
Frequently asked questions
About ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMYHow large is ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY?
ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY enrolls approximately 844 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY serve?
ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY is approximately 12.7:1 (67 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY?
Student demographics at ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY are roughly 68% White, 4% Hispanic, 14% Black, 0% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY?
ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMY is overseen by ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Chemung County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.