GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 267 NEWMAN ST, in SPRINGVILLE, New York, GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small intermediate school that works with 349 students (grades 6 through 8), part of SPRINGVILLE-GRIFFITH INSTITUTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 34% smaller than typical.

SPRINGVILLE-GRIFFITH INSTITUTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,560 students. GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.7%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -14.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Erie County put median household income runs about $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SPRINGVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.

GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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