LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in LOWVILLE, New York, LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intimate middle-grades school, one of the schools within LOWVILLE ACADEMY & CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 263 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 50% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Across the 3 schools in LOWVILLE ACADEMY & CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,276 students total), LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder looks like 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Lewis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 46% of students at LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.2%, the actual is 63.5%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Across the wider county, Lewis County reports that median household income runs about $68,182, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 13 public schools in Lewis County (combined enrollment of about 4,082 students).

LOWVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 62.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 300 (now 263). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 95% to 91%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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