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Enrollment
444
Middle
DISTRICT 523 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361644002836
LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL
550 MARTIN RD, LACKAWANNA, NY 14218 · (716) 821-5610 · Erie County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL444 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of New York public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
9.4:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
384 students
DISTRICT 82% · 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 6 | 159 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 136 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 144 | 32% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL→LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within LACKAWANNA CITY 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
17.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
30.8%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.0% | 30.8% |
| 2023-24 | 17.0% | 22.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
23.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL
LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (23.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 444 | 86.5% | 23.0% |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL JAMESTOWN | 419 | 79.5% | 42.6% |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL JAMESTOWN | 455 | 87.7% | 32.4% |
| PERSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL JAMESTOWN | 373 | 75.6% | 49.7% |
| SENECA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SALAMANCA | 404 | 78.5% | 32.9% |
| COHOES MIDDLE SCHOOL COHOES | 427 | 70.0% | 51.1% |
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 LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #749 of 766 | #30 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #699 of 768 ▲ 35 | #30 of 32 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #756 of 768 ▲ 1 | #30 of 32 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 444 | #397 of 796 | #23 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #177 of 683 | #7 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.6% | #210 of 688 | #7 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.5% | #175 of 773 | #2 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.6% | #43 of 168 | #2 of 9 |
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
444
+23 (+5%) vs 2020
-16% since 2000-01, when it was 531
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 444 | 47.3 | 9.4:1 | 86% (384) |
| 2023-24 | 440 | 49.7 | 8.9:1 | 84% (368) |
| 2022-23 | 407 | 47.1 | 8.7:1 | 80% (325) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 31 | 13.6:1 | 84% (353) |
| 2017-18 | 391 | 24.5 | 15.9:1 | 86% (336) |
| 2015-16 | 371 | 21 | 17.7:1 | 85% (315) |
| 2010-11 | 248 | 24 | 10.3:1 | 68% (168) |
| 2000-01 | 531 | 30 | 17.7:1 | 76% (402) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL
LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a low-enrollment middle school for students in LACKAWANNA, New York. The student body numbers 444 students, from grades 6 through 8.
Federal data list 4 schools in LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 2,091 students enrolled.
White students make up a majority at LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL, at 60%. Smaller groups are 18% Hispanic, 13% Black, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Erie County is roughly 74% White. The school's diversity index is 59%, meaning two students picked at random have a 59% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The count of teachers at LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL is 47.3 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 9.4:1. That is 0.9 students per teacher below the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Around 86% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Erie County report 51%.
LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded F by allk12, scoring above 2% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL are 20.2 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 23.0%, compared with a predicted 43.2%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in New York.
Erie County has about 950,622 residents, and the median household income is $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL, Erie County has 225 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 23.0% is below the 35.1% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 444 students in 2024-25, 23 more than the 421 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.6:1 in 2020-21 to 9.4:1 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 LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 670 students
- MARTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 573 students
- TRUMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 404 students
Other schools in LACKAWANNA
- GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 878 students
- LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 670 students
- MARTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 573 students
- TRUMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 404 students
Nearby schools
- LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 670
- MARTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 573
- TRUMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 404
- GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 878
- WINCHESTER-POTTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 422
- DISCOVERY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 541
Frequently asked questions
About LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 444 students in grades 06-08.
Is LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.4:1.
What is the student diversity at LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 60% White, 18% Hispanic, 13% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.