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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
741
Middle
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361335001098
HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL
360 DIVISION ST, HAMBURG, NY 14075 · (716) 646-3250 · Erie County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL741 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
11.6:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
188 students
DISTRICT 25% · 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 6 | 243 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 252 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 240 | 32% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · 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
HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL→HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within HAMBURG 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
50.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
71.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 71.1% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 60.4% |
% 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
63.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL
HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (63.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 741 | 25.4% | 63.0% |
| LANCASTER MIDDLE SCHOOL LANCASTER | 876 | 26.0% | 62.5% |
| WEST GENESEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL CAMILLUS | 724 | 27.9% | 57.4% |
| MARTHA BROWN MIDDLE SCHOOL FAIRPORT | 640 | 24.5% | 71.8% |
| DONALD S RAY SCHOOL BALDWINSVILLE | 846 | 29.6% | 55.6% |
| ALGONQUIN MIDDLE SCHOOL AVERILL PARK | 608 | 28.9% | 61.0% |
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 HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #218 of 766 | #10 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.1% | #264 of 768 ▲ 87 | #12 of 32 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #341 of 768 ▲ 163 | #14 of 32 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 741 | #190 of 796 | #11 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #512 of 683 | #28 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.0% | #623 of 688 | #26 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.4% | #661 of 773 | #26 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.7% | #300 of 524 | #7 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
741
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 879
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 741 | 64 | 11.6:1 | 25% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 751 | 77 | 9.8:1 | 26% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 755 | 71 | 10.6:1 | 24% (180) |
| 2020-21 | 756 | 77 | 9.8:1 | 23% (176) |
| 2017-18 | 830 | 66 | 12.6:1 | 21% (173) |
| 2015-16 | 845 | 66 | 12.8:1 | 20% (172) |
| 2010-11 | 895 | 83 | 10.8:1 | 16% (140) |
| 2000-01 | 973 | 76 | 12.8:1 | 12% (118) |
| 1990-91 | 879 | 68 | 12.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL
HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school in HAMBURG, New York, according to federal school records. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 741 students on the rolls. On average, middle schools in New York enroll around 531, and this school is 40% above that mark.
HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 6 schools and 3,309 students, HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
The share of students at HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL who are White is 91%. Enrollment also includes 4% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. Among people living in Erie County, the White share is about 74%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 17%.
Staffing at HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL comes to 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.6:1. The school's 11.6:1 compares with an average of 10.3:1 for middle schools in New York. On the income side, 25% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Erie County averages 51%, higher than here.
On the allk12 Grade, HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at B, ahead of 62% of New York public middle schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2.6 points below its prediction. Actual: 63.0%. Predicted: 65.7%.
Looking at the county, Erie County, the median household earns about $72,839 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL, Erie County has 226 public schools.
HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL places 3rd out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
In the federal locale system, HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 756 to 741. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 9.8:1 to 11.6:1.
This page is set up for the HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 979 students
- UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 663 students
- CHARLOTTE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 382 students
- ARMOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 332 students
- BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 212 students
Other schools in HAMBURG
- FRONTIER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,293 students
- FRONTIER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,067 students
- HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 979 students
- UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 663 students
- BIG TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 535 students
- CLOVERBANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 509 students
Other Hamburg Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Hamburg Middle. HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOLHAMBURG, AR · 344 students
- Hamburg Middle SchoolHamburg, IA · 31 students
Nearby schools
- HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 979
- CHARLOTTE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 382
- UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 663
- ARMOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 332
- RANDOLPH ACADEMYHAMBURG CAMPUS2.1 mi · 73
- BIG TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 535
Frequently asked questions
About HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL?
HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 741 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 11.6:1 (64 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 91% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.