Enrollment
349
Middle
DISTRICT 390 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRINGVILLE-GRIFFITH INSTITUTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361299001065
GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL
267 NEWMAN ST, SPRINGVILLE, NY 14141 · (716) 592-3203 · Erie County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL349 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.
- 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
9.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
136 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 120 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 111 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 117 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 12% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
30.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
58.4%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.0% | 58.4% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 54.7% |
% 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
45.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL
GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (45.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 349 | 39.0% | 45.9% |
| PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL PALMYRA | 354 | 38.7% | 47.5% |
| WILLIAM H GOLDING MIDDLE SCHOOL COBLESKILL | 344 | 41.0% | 50.1% |
| SARANAC MIDDLE SCHOOL SARANAC | 361 | 37.7% | 46.1% |
| HOMER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL HOMER | 397 | 40.8% | 53.2% |
| OTTO L SHORTELL MIDDLE SCHOOL WAMPSVILLE | 355 | 41.4% | 44.5% |
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 GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.9% | #508 of 766 | #26 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.4% | #398 of 768 ▲ 11 | #19 of 32 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #689 of 768 ▼ 40 | #29 of 32 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 349 | #500 of 796 | #25 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #256 of 683 | #9 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.2% | #629 of 688 | #27 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.0% | #536 of 773 | #15 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.1% | #319 of 524 | #10 of 21 |
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
349
-20 (-5%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 641
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 349 | 35.7 | 9.8:1 | 39% (136) |
| 2023-24 | 366 | 37.5 | 9.8:1 | 38% (138) |
| 2022-23 | 368 | 37.9 | 9.7:1 | 41% (152) |
| 2020-21 | 369 | 29 | 12.7:1 | 36% (131) |
| 2017-18 | 388 | 31.5 | 12.3:1 | 36% (139) |
| 2015-16 | 402 | 34 | 11.8:1 | 31% (125) |
| 2010-11 | 466 | 41 | 11.4:1 | 24% (114) |
| 2000-01 | 589 | 42 | 14.0:1 | 26% (156) |
| 1990-91 | 641 | 40 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Located in SPRINGVILLE, New York, GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small middle-grades school. Total enrollment is 349 students, and the grades served are 6 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in New York enroll about 531 students on average.
SPRINGVILLE-GRIFFITH INSTITUTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 4 schools and 1,560 students, including GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
A large majority of enrollment at GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is White, at 91%. Beyond that, enrollment is 4% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. The White share of the county population is lower, at 74%. The diversity index for GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 16%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a ratio of 9.8 students per teacher, from 35.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is close to this figure. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL, 39% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Erie County averages 51%, higher than here.
GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 21% of New York public middle schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 60.7%. GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 45.9%.
The school's county is Erie County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $72,839 a year, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Erie County with 225 other public schools.
The closest school to GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is SPRINGVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located about 0.1 miles away. There are 2 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 5th of 9.
The NCES locale for GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is Rural: Distant, which covers schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 349, from 369 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 12.7 to 9.8 over 4 years.
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Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SPRINGVILLE-GRIFFITH INSTITUTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GRIFFITH INSTITUTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 501 students
- SPRINGVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 497 students
- COLDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 213 students
Other schools in SPRINGVILLE
- GRIFFITH INSTITUTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 501 students
- SPRINGVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 497 students
Nearby schools
- SPRINGVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 497
- GRIFFITH INSTITUTE HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 501
- WEST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL8.0 mi · 186
- COLDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.9 mi · 213
- DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.1 mi · 337
- PIONEER MIDDLE SCHOOL9.4 mi · 659
Frequently asked questions
About GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 349 students in grades 06-08.
Is GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 9.8:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 91% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SPRINGVILLE-GRIFFITH INSTITUTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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