GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL

GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized junior high in CLIFTON PARK, New York, operated by SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 764 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 44% bigger than the state mean of about 531.

SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,348 students; GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL records 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Saratoga County (around 30%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.2%, the actual is 82.3%, a residual of +13.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Saratoga County shows median household income runs about $100,787, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Saratoga County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students), GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ACADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 73.9%.

GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 751 students in 2018 compared to 764 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 79% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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