NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL

NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, an average-sized middle-grades school in ALBANY, New York, operated by ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 588 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Across the 16 schools in ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (8,509 students total), NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 39% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 13% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Albany County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Albany County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -16.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Albany County) shows that median household income runs about $85,333, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 75 public schools in Albany County (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students).

Nearest neighbor: KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

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