KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL

KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the moderately sized 6-8 campuss in TROY, New York, one of the schools within LANSINGBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 474 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by LANSINGBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 2,060 students overall.

On the student-mix side, KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Black, 17% Hispanic, 15% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Rensselaer County (around 46%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.5%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of -10.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Rensselaer County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,915 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Rensselaer County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,274 students), of which KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

LANSINGBURGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 6%, going from 502 students in 2018 to 474 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 61% to 43%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.