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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
648
Middle
DISTRICT 739 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363147004213
HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL
175 HEIM RD, WILLIAMSVILLE, NY 14221 · (716) 626-8600 · Erie County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL648 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New York public middle schools
- A-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
11.0:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
170 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 5 | 165 | 25% |
| Grade 6 | 161 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 163 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 148 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 11 | 2% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
82.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 82.1% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 79.5% |
% 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
69.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL
HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (69.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 648 | 26.2% | 69.7% |
| CASEY MIDDLE SCHOOL EAST AMHERST | 606 | 26.4% | 73.1% |
| ACADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 761 | 25.2% | 77.9% |
| JAMESVILLE-DEWITT MIDDLE SCHOOL JAMESVILLE | 693 | 28.7% | 74.6% |
| WELLWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 651 | 23.0% | 78.3% |
| KODA MIDDLE SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 765 | 26.9% | 77.7% |
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 HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.7% | #138 of 766 | #7 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #168 of 768 ▲ 14 | #5 of 32 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #156 of 768 ▼ 7 | #6 of 32 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 648 | #236 of 796 | #14 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #444 of 683 | #23 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.4% | #416 of 688 | #13 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.2% | #651 of 773 | #23 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #452 of 524 | #18 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
648
+29 (+5%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 946
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 648 | 58.9 | 11.0:1 | 26% (170) |
| 2023-24 | 603 | 60.8 | 9.9:1 | 26% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 602 | 61 | 9.9:1 | 26% (159) |
| 2020-21 | 619 | 59 | 10.5:1 | 21% (128) |
| 2017-18 | 674 | 49.6 | 13.6:1 | 14% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 651 | 50 | 13.0:1 | 13% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 624 | 52 | 12.0:1 | 10% (65) |
| 2000-01 | 814 | 58 | 14.0:1 | 8% (67) |
| 1990-91 | 946 | 72 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL
HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school in WILLIAMSVILLE, New York, one of the schools in WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. In all, 648 students attend the school in grades 5 through 8. That is 22% larger than the average of about 531 students for middle schools in New York.
District-wide, WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 13 schools and 9,598 students.
The largest group at HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL is White students, at 73%. Other groups include 13% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 4% Black. Erie County residents are about 74% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 44%.
On staff are 58.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.0:1. Middle schools in New York average 10.3:1, 0.7 fewer students per teacher than here. HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 26%. On average, public schools in Erie County report 51%.
Among New York public middle schools, HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4.4 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (69.7% versus 65.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
In the surrounding county, Erie County, the median household earns about $72,839 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Erie County has 226 public schools with about 122,519 students, including HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Of the public schools around it, HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 73.2%; HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL's is 69.7%, ranking 6th of 9.
Federal data place HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 5% rise took enrollment from 619 in 2020-21 to 648 in 2024-25.
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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 WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,307 students
- WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 940 students
- TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 912 students
- WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 796 students
- MILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 790 students
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 670 students
Other schools in WILLIAMSVILLE
- WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,307 students
- WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 796 students
- MILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 790 students
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 670 students
- HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 661 students
- MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 597 students
Nearby schools
- HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 661
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 670
- WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,307
- CASEY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 606
- MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 597
- SWEET HOME SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,105
Frequently asked questions
About HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL?
HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 648 students in grades 05-08.
What grades does HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 05-08.
How many students per teacher at HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.0:1 students per teacher at HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 73% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black, 13% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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