JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL

JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the intimate middle schools in WALLKILL, New York, part of WALLKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 409 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 23% below that benchmark.

Within WALLKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,706 students, JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 61%; the rest looks like 29% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Ulster County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.5%, the actual is 62.3%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Ulster County put median household income runs about $86,271, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Ulster County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OSTRANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 506 (now 409). The White share of enrollment fell from 68% to 61% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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