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What's the one class at NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
395
Middle
DISTRICT 363 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362064002894
NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL
701 PEIRSON AVE, NEWARK, NY 14513 · (315) 332-3295 · Wayne County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL395 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% 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.
- DBeats 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
8.6:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
212 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 123 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 138 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 129 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL→NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within NEWARK CENTRAL 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
26.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
26.7%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.0% | 26.7% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 29.3% |
% 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
37.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL
NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (37.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 395 | 53.7% | 37.6% |
| SOLVAY MIDDLE SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 414 | 61.4% | 41.0% |
| WATERLOO MIDDLE SCHOOL WATERLOO | 356 | 54.8% | 43.4% |
| CATSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL CATSKILL | 264 | 58.7% | 52.0% |
| CARL I BERGERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL ALBION | 400 | 63.0% | 48.0% |
| KNOX MIDDLE SCHOOL JOHNSTOWN | 341 | 54.8% | 52.2% |
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 NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.6% | #640 of 766 | #9 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #725 of 768 ▼ 22 | #10 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #723 of 768 ▼ 89 | #10 of 10 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 395 | #440 of 796 | #2 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #73 of 683 | #2 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.0% | #328 of 688 | #2 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.7% | #387 of 773 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.5% | #189 of 524 | #4 of 6 |
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
395
-84 (-18%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 625
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 9.4:1
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 | 395 | 46.1 | 8.6:1 | 54% (212) |
| 2023-24 | 415 | 50.3 | 8.3:1 | 56% (231) |
| 2022-23 | 445 | 49.7 | 8.9:1 | 59% (262) |
| 2020-21 | 479 | 51 | 9.4:1 | 56% (269) |
| 2017-18 | 473 | 44 | 10.8:1 | 55% (262) |
| 2015-16 | 480 | 41 | 11.7:1 | 57% (276) |
| 2010-11 | 483 | 50 | 9.7:1 | 47% (229) |
| 2000-01 | 646 | 59 | 10.9:1 | 29% (189) |
| 1990-91 | 625 | 50 | 12.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL
In NEWARK, New York, NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small middle school. The school's enrollment of 395 students covers grades 6 through 8. Statewide, middle schools in New York average about 531 students each.
NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of a district of 5 schools: NEWARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 1,817 students.
At NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL, White students make up 67% of the student body. The remaining shares are 18% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 7% multiracial. Wayne County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school's share is lower. 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 teaching staff at NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is 46.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 8.6:1. This ratio sits 1.7 below the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. About 54% of students, or 212, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
allk12 grades NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL would be expected to post about 55.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 37.6%.
Wayne County has about 90,929 residents, and the median household income is $74,506, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wayne County has 37 public schools and roughly 13,068 students.
The closest public school, NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles from NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL. There are 5 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is 3rd among 5 schools close by.
NCES assigns NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL the locale Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Over 4 years, NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment declined 18%, to 395.
Community posts for NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
90,929
Census ACS
Median income
$74,506
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
13,068 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEWARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 586 students
- NORMAN R KELLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 363 students
- PERKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 266 students
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 207 students
Other schools in NEWARK
- ONTARIO-SENECA-YATES-CAYUGA-WAYNE BOCESCombined · 715 students
- NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 586 students
- NORMAN R KELLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 363 students
- PERKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 266 students
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 207 students
Other Newark Middle schools
One other US public school is named Newark Middle. NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Newark MiddleNewark, CA · 980 students
Nearby schools
- NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 586
- PERKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 266
- NORMAN R KELLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 363
- ONTARIO-SENECA-YATES-CAYUGA-WAYNE BOCES1.5 mi · 715
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 207
- MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.3 mi · 761
Frequently asked questions
About NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 395 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 8.6:1 students per teacher at NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 67% White, 18% Hispanic, 8% Black, 0% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEWARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.