INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL

INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL, a medium-sized middle-grades school in PHILADELPHIA, New York, overseen by INDIAN RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 730 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 37% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in INDIAN RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,326 students total), INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 64%. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL has 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.4%; this one delivers 59.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that median household income runs about $66,301, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Jefferson County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,789 students), of which INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: INDIAN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked down 7%, going from 786 students in 2018 to 730 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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