NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in NORTH TONAWANDA, New York, NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school, part of NORTH TONAWANDA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 495 students across grades 7 through 8.

NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by NORTH TONAWANDA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that serves 3,126 students overall.

On demographics, NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Niagara County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 46% of students at NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.9%, the actual is 52.3%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Niagara County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $69,633 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Niagara County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,388 students), of which NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 517 students in 2018 compared to 495 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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