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What's something GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,138
Middle
DISTRICT 730 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARMEL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360657000439
GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL
281 FAIR ST, CARMEL, NY 10512 · (845) 228-2300 · Putnam County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,138 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% 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.
- DBeats 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
11.3:1
100 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
405 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 5 | 257 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 288 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 289 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 298 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL→CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within CARMEL 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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
53.6%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 53.6% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 52.5% |
% 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
46.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL
GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (46.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,138 | 35.6% | 46.0% |
| LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL YORKTOWN HEIGHTS | 1,219 | 31.5% | 59.7% |
| VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MONTGOMERY | 945 | 39.9% | 61.1% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 814 | 31.8% | 47.4% |
| FOX LANE MIDDLE SCHOOL BEDFORD | 767 | 35.2% | 69.0% |
| WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL WASHINGTONVILLE | 884 | 40.0% | 52.3% |
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 GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #504 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #456 of 768 ▼ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #501 of 768 ▼ 66 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,138 | #49 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #482 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #217 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.6% | #570 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.2% | #231 of 524 |
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
1,138
-53 (-4%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 1,260
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 1,138 | 100.4 | 11.3:1 | 36% (405) |
| 2023-24 | 1,139 | 101.7 | 11.2:1 | 36% (413) |
| 2022-23 | 1,130 | 96 | 11.8:1 | 38% (434) |
| 2020-21 | 1,191 | 102 | 11.7:1 | 32% (384) |
| 2017-18 | 1,326 | 106.5 | 12.4:1 | 28% (375) |
| 2015-16 | 1,345 | 99 | 13.6:1 | 22% (302) |
| 2010-11 | 1,393 | 109 | 12.8:1 | 15% (210) |
| 2000-01 | 1,563 | 105 | 14.9:1 | 7% (111) |
| 1990-91 | 1,260 | 108 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL
This page covers GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL, a high-enrollment middle-grades school in CARMEL, New York. The school counted 1,138 students in 2024-25, covering grades 5 through 8. That puts enrollment 114% larger than the 531-student average for middle schools in New York.
CARMEL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 5 schools and 3,651 students, including GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
The largest racial or ethnic group at GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL is White, with 49% of students. Next come 41% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. The county population is about 75% White. The diversity index for GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 100.4 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1. Middle schools in New York average 10.3:1, 1.0 fewer students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 36% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public middle schools, GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 20%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 15.9 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (46.0% versus 61.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Putnam County show that median household income comes to about $126,257, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county's public schools total 23, with about 12,955 students.
Of the public schools around it, GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL, about 1.5 miles away. There are 7 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 54.7% on proficiency, and GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL is below that at 46.0%.
The federal government classifies GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
The school shrank from 1,191 students in 2020-21 to 1,138 in 2024-25.
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Putnam County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
98,107
Census ACS
Median income
$126,257
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
12,955 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CARMEL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CARMEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,299 students
- MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 464 students
- KENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 384 students
- KENT PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 366 students
- PUTNAM COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITYElementary
Other schools in CARMEL
- CARMEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,299 students
- KENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 384 students
- KENT PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 366 students
- PUTNAM COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITYElementary
Nearby schools
- CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,299
- C V STARR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL2.5 mi · 664
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 592
- HENRY H WELLS MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 656
- BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 1,076
- KENT PRIMARY SCHOOL3.8 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,138 students in grades 05-08.
What grades does GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 05-08.
How many students per teacher at GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 49% White, 41% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of CARMEL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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