FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL

FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a minimally staffed 6-8 campus in FRANKFORT, New York, overseen by FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 183 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 66% below the state mean of about 531.

FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 850 students overall.

On the student-mix side, FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Herkimer County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,515, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Herkimer County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,619 students), FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 55.3%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 220 (now 183). White enrollment moved from 96% to 90% across the same window.

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