GOUVERNEUR MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a small middle-grades school in GOUVERNEUR, New York, GOUVERNEUR MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls 447 students from grades 5 through 8, one of the schools within GOUVERNEUR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 3 schools in GOUVERNEUR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,408 students total), GOUVERNEUR MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, GOUVERNEUR MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with St. Lawrence County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, GOUVERNEUR MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Lawrence County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, GOUVERNEUR MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.8%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Lawrence County indicate median household income runs about $62,850, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. GOUVERNEUR MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in St. Lawrence County (combined enrollment of about 13,653 students).

GOUVERNEUR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around GOUVERNEUR MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GOUVERNEUR MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.7%.

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