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If you could change one rule at OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
534
Middle
DISTRICT 458 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLEAN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362172003081
OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL
401 WAYNE ST, OLEAN, NY 14760 · (716) 375-8062 · Cattaraugus County
GRADES 03–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL534 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
326 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 3 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 4 | 140 | 26% |
| Grade 5 | 128 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 119 | 22% |
| Grade 7 | 128 | 24% |
| Grade 8 | 3 | 1% |
| Ungraded | 15 | 3% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
24.0%
NY avg 58.3%
Math
43.0%
NY avg 57.4%
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57.
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
35.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL
OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (35.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 534 | 61.0% | 35.8% |
| AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUBURN | 560 | 59.5% | 43.9% |
| FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FULTON | 472 | 57.8% | 44.8% |
| DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL BATH | 509 | 60.3% | 40.8% |
| WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL WAVERLY | 486 | 56.6% | 59.0% |
| AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 587 | 64.6% | 49.9% |
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 OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.8% | #658 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #602 of 768 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #734 of 768 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 534 | #336 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #67 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.9% | #504 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.0% | #339 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.2% | #250 of 524 |
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
534
-53 (-9%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 419
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 534 | 63 | 8.5:1 | 61% (326) |
| 2023-24 | 544 | 59.2 | 9.2:1 | 59% (323) |
| 2022-23 | 564 | 56.7 | 9.9:1 | 58% (329) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | 56 | 10.5:1 | 56% (330) |
| 2017-18 | 615 | 50 | 12.3:1 | 64% (393) |
| 2015-16 | 661 | 50 | 13.2:1 | 60% (398) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | 46 | 11.6:1 | 50% (267) |
| 2000-01 | 682 | 34 | 20.1:1 | 37% (255) |
| 1990-91 | 419 | 23 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL
As a mid-sized middle-grades school, OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students in OLEAN, New York. It offers grades 3 through 8 and has 534 students enrolled.
OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL is a school in OLEAN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The district has 4 schools and 1,833 students.
At OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL, 79% of students are White. It is also 10% multiracial, 4% Black, 4% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Cattaraugus County is roughly 89% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 36%.
Its staff includes 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 8.5 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in New York, 10.3:1, is higher. OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 61%. Among public schools in Cattaraugus County, the average eligibility rate is 50%.
OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 35.8% is 16.8 points below the 52.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school is in Cattaraugus County, where the median household earns about $59,540 a year, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Across Cattaraugus County, 31 public schools serve about 11,228 students.
OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number 6. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 52.0%; OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL's is 35.8%, ranking 7th of 8.
OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as Town: Remote in federal locale data.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 534, down from 587 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 10.5 to 8.5 over 4 years.
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Cattaraugus County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
76,145
Census ACS
Median income
$59,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
31
11,228 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OLEAN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 668 students
- EAST VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 347 students
- WASHINGTON WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 284 students
Other schools in OLEAN
- OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 668 students
- CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY-ERIE-WYOMING BOCESCombined · 452 students
- EAST VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 347 students
- WASHINGTON WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 284 students
Nearby schools
- OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 668
- WASHINGTON WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 284
- EAST VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 347
- CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY-ERIE-WYOMING BOCES1.6 mi · 452
- ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.0 mi · 466
- ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE MIDDLE-HIGH SCHOOL4.9 mi · 562
Frequently asked questions
About OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL?
OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 534 students in grades 03-08.
What grades does OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 03-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 8.5:1 (63 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 79% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of OLEAN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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