LINDEN AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in RED HOOK, New York, LINDEN AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a close-knit middle-grades school, one of the schools within RED HOOK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 390 students across grades 6 through 9. That puts it 27% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

RED HOOK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,881 students. LINDEN AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LINDEN AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 14% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 37 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. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Dutchess County's rate of about 40%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LINDEN AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 66.6%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dutchess County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,478 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dutchess County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students), LINDEN AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RED HOOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LINDEN AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 67.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. LINDEN AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 430 (now 390). The White share of enrollment shrank from 86% to 79% over that span.

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