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How has IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
478
Middle
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361536001293
IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL
2111 GIRDLE RD, ELMA, NY 14059 · (716) 652-3000 · Erie County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL478 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
94 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL→IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within IROQUOIS 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
46.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
66.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
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
58.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
478
-70 (-13%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 14.8:1
% White
95%
was 93%
% Hispanic
1%
was 2%
% Black
0%
was 1%
% Asian
1%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL
As a mid-tier 6-8 campus in ELMA, New York, IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL hosts 478 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 2,073 students overall.
On demographics, IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest breaks down as 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.8%, the actual is 58.2%, a residual of -9.6 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Erie County put the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: IROQUOIS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 66.2%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 13%, going from 548 students in 2018 to 478 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.
On this page, members of the IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 628 students
- IROQUOIS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 301 students
- ELMA PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 260 students
- MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 221 students
- WALES PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 185 students
Other schools in ELMA
- IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 628 students
- IROQUOIS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 301 students
- ELMA PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 260 students
Nearby schools
- IROQUOIS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 301
- IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 628
- ELMA PRIMARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 260
- MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 221
- WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL3.9 mi · 1,274
- ALDEN PRIMARY AT TOWNLINE4.1 mi · 299
Frequently asked questions
About IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 478 students in grades 06-08.
Is IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.5:1.
How diverse is IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 95% White, 1% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.