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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the GATES-CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
838
Middle
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361188000951
GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL
2 SPARTAN WAY, ROCHESTER, NY 14624 · (585) 247-5050 · Monroe County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL838 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% 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.
- 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
9.8:1
86 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
476 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 240 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 300 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 294 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL→GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within GATES CHILI CENTRAL 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
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
46.7%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 46.7% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 50.6% |
% 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
44.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL
GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (44.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 838 | 56.8% | 44.0% |
| JENNIE F SNAPP MIDDLE SCHOOL ENDICOTT | 772 | 56.6% | 48.1% |
| ARCADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 673 | 50.2% | 53.5% |
| M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL LAKE KATRINE | 826 | 58.6% | 32.3% |
| HAVILAND MIDDLE SCHOOL HYDE PARK | 757 | 48.1% | 54.8% |
| ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 810 | 45.9% | 53.8% |
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 GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #543 of 766 | #22 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #560 of 768 ▼ 101 | #23 of 29 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #580 of 768 ▼ 47 | #20 of 28 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 838 | #139 of 796 | #6 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #258 of 683 | #15 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.9% | #61 of 688 | #3 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.8% | #367 of 773 | #12 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.3% | #438 of 524 | #12 of 16 |
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
838
+41 (+5%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 1,176
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 10.2:1
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 | 838 | 85.5 | 9.8:1 | 57% (476) |
| 2023-24 | 865 | 81.9 | 10.6:1 | 56% (481) |
| 2022-23 | 854 | 79.6 | 10.7:1 | 58% (492) |
| 2020-21 | 797 | 78 | 10.2:1 | 43% (345) |
| 2017-18 | 876 | 81 | 10.8:1 | 52% (458) |
| 2015-16 | 931 | 82 | 11.3:1 | 41% (380) |
| 2010-11 | 1,023 | 77 | 13.3:1 | 43% (435) |
| 2000-01 | 1,265 | 88 | 14.4:1 | 20% (259) |
| 1990-91 | 1,176 | 73 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL
GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle school in ROCHESTER, New York, one of the schools in GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 838 students. Middle schools in New York have about 531 students on average; enrollment here is 58% higher.
GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 6 schools and 3,598 students, including GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL.
The largest racial or ethnic group at GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL is White, with 46% of students. The remaining shares are 20% Black, 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Monroe County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school's share is lower. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 70%.
GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a ratio of 9.8 students per teacher, from 85.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is close to this figure. In all, 57% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public middle schools, GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 21%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL is -10.1 points: 44.0% actual, 54.1% predicted.
Monroe County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $76,382 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL, Monroe County has 186 public schools.
GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 39.3% proficiency; GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 44.0%.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL had a net gain of 41 students, or 5%.
The discussion board for GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
- PAUL ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 426 students
- WALT DISNEY SCHOOLElementary · 416 students
- NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOLElementary · 400 students
- FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOLElementary · 384 students
Other schools in ROCHESTER
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 1Combined · 1,405 students
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,164 students
- IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
Nearby schools
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,134
- NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL0.9 mi · 400
- WALT DISNEY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 416
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 1,362
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 22.9 mi · 827
- DR DAVID AND RUTH ANDERSON ACADEMY- SCHOOL 163.0 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 838 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 86 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 46% White, 18% Hispanic, 20% Black, 5% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
GATES CHILI MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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