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Enrollment
588
Middle
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360246006700
NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
570 N PEARL ST, ALBANY, NY 12204 · (518) 475-6800 · Albany County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL588 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of New York public middle schools
- DTest 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
9.0:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
419 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 | 187 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 185 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 171 | 29% |
| Ungraded | 45 | 8% |
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL→ALBANY HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within ALBANY 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
29.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
72.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 67.0% |
% 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
32.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (32.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 588 | 71.3% | 32.4% |
| STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ALBANY | 570 | 66.0% | 35.5% |
| WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOL ALBANY | 615 | 68.0% | 47.4% |
| JHS 78 ROY H MANN BROOKLYN | 662 | 72.1% | 54.6% |
| ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 657 | 79.5% | 33.5% |
| CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL CHEEKTOWAGA | 677 | 72.2% | 43.2% |
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 NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Albany County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.4% | #700 of 766 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #252 of 768 ▲ 40 | #7 of 11 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #700 of 768 ▼ 1 | #11 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 588 | #289 of 796 | #7 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.0:1 | #117 of 683 | #3 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.8% | #20 of 688 | #2 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.3% | #286 of 773 | #1 of 11 |
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
588
+389 (+195%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
9.0:1
was 9.5:1
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 | 588 | 65.6 | 9.0:1 | 71% (419) |
| 2023-24 | 488 | 63.2 | 7.7:1 | 75% (365) |
| 2022-23 | 437 | 56 | 7.8:1 | 82% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 199 | 21 | 9.5:1 | 92% (183) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school in ALBANY, New York, and it is part of ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 588 students.
ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (16 schools, 8,509 students) runs NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
The most common group at NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is Black students, at 39%. It is also 24% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 13% White, and 6% multiracial. Albany County's residents are about 12% Black, 27 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 74% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 65.6 full-time equivalents, or about 9.0 students per teacher. On average, middle schools in New York have 10.3:1, compared with 9.0:1 here. About 71% of students, or 419, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Albany County average 45%.
allk12 grades NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 16.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (32.4% versus 48.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
County data help place the school in context: in Albany County, the median household income is $85,333, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. In all, Albany County has 75 public schools and roughly 39,946 students.
The closest public school to NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 5th of 8 on proficiency.
NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Federal records list enrollment at NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL as 199 in 2020-21 and 588 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students.
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Albany County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
317,018
Census ACS
Median income
$85,333
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
39,946 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 615 students
- STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 570 students
- NEW SCOTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 451 students
- GIFFEN MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 387 students
- ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIESElementary · 378 students
Other schools in ALBANY
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 873 students
- KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 840 students
- KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 688 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
Nearby schools
- KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 840
- ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 301
- MENANDS SCHOOL1.0 mi · 282
- NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION1.2 mi · 83
- DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM AT ALBANY INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY1.2 mi · 213
- SHERIDAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY1.6 mi · 284
Frequently asked questions
About NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 588 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 9.0:1 (66 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 13% White, 24% Hispanic, 39% Black, 15% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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