FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL

FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized middle school in FREDONIA, New York, part of FREDONIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 453 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Within FREDONIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,484 students, FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, The school employs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Chautauqua County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.8%; this one delivers 60.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Chautauqua County shows median household income runs about $58,351, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Chautauqua County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students), FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 447 students in 2018 compared to 453 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 83% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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