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What's the most underrated thing about MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
820
Middle
DISTRICT 823 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361932001765
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
112 GRAND AVE, MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 · (845) 326-1650 · Orange County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL820 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of New York public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.5:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
629 students
DISTRICT 76% · 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 | 255 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 303 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 262 | 32% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL→MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within MIDDLETOWN 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
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
35.9%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 35.9% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 32.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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 MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (39.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 820 | 76.7% | 39.2% |
| MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 826 | 74.7% | 37.5% |
| ALVERTA B GRAY SCHULTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL HEMPSTEAD | 748 | 76.6% | 26.1% |
| JOHN W DODD MIDDLE SCHOOL FREEPORT | 924 | 70.8% | 46.5% |
| ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL NEW ROCHELLE | 1,122 | 76.3% | 49.1% |
| YONKERS MIDDLE SCHOOL YONKERS | 540 | 76.5% | 51.3% |
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 MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #614 of 766 | #14 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.9% | #666 of 768 ▲ 14 | #16 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #603 of 768 ▲ 45 | #13 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 820 | #148 of 796 | #7 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #370 of 683 | #9 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.5% | #318 of 688 | #14 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.7% | #254 of 773 | #1 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.6% | #243 of 524 | #2 of 12 |
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
820
-144 (-15%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 778
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 820 | 78.1 | 10.5:1 | 77% (629) |
| 2023-24 | 833 | 81.4 | 10.2:1 | 74% (617) |
| 2022-23 | 858 | 82.8 | 10.4:1 | 78% (666) |
| 2020-21 | 964 | 82 | 11.8:1 | 74% (717) |
| 2017-18 | 949 | 66 | 14.4:1 | 80% (762) |
| 2015-16 | 896 | 61 | 14.7:1 | 78% (701) |
| 2010-11 | 798 | 65 | 12.3:1 | 75% (596) |
| 2000-01 | 741 | 55 | 13.5:1 | 56% (412) |
| 1990-91 | 778 | 71 | 11.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
At 112 GRAND AVE in MIDDLETOWN, New York, MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a large middle school. It educates 820 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 54% above the 531 average for middle schools in New York.
Besides MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL, MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 other schools. The district enrolls 7,176 students.
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 66% Hispanic by enrollment. The remaining students are 20% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among people living in Orange County, the Hispanic share is about 24%. Pick two students at random and there is a 51% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 78.1 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 10.5:1. That is close to the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 77%. For comparison, public schools in Orange County average 44%.
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 20% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 46.8% for MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL. The school posts 39.2%, 7.6 points below the prediction.
Orange County has these Census figures: the median household income is $97,178, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Orange County is home to 82 public schools and about 57,122 public school students.
Nearby, MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.5 miles away. Within five miles of MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Small).
The school enrolled 820 students in 2024-25, 144 fewer than the 964 it had in 2020-21. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.8:1 to 10.5:1.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,495 students
- PRESIDENTIAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,225 students
- MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,064 students
- MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 826 students
- WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOLElementary · 746 students
Other schools in MIDDLETOWN
- MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,495 students
- PRESIDENTIAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,225 students
- MINISINK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,116 students
- MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,064 students
- MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 826 students
- MINISINK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 806 students
Nearby schools
- MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,495
- WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 746
- PRESIDENTIAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,225
- MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 826
- MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 1,064
- PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.8 mi · 412
Frequently asked questions
About MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 820 students in grades 06-08.
Is MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 78 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.5:1.
How diverse is MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 6% White, 66% Hispanic, 20% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.