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Enrollment
631
Middle
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH GLENS FALLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362724003717
OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL
99 HUDSON ST, SOUTH GLENS FALLS, NY 12803 · (518) 792-5891 · Saratoga County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL631 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 51% of New York public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
12.6:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
244 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 | 200 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 220 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 205 | 32% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL→SOUTH GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SOUTH GLENS FALLS 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
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
52.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 52.3% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 55.3% |
% 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
56.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL
OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (56.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 631 | 38.7% | 56.5% |
| QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL QUEENSBURY | 671 | 36.2% | 71.6% |
| CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL CHITTENANGO | 558 | 36.6% | 55.9% |
| MAINE-ENDWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL ENDWELL | 577 | 37.8% | 67.8% |
| CANANDAIGUA MIDDLE SCHOOL CANANDAIGUA | 687 | 38.4% | 61.2% |
| HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOL HORSEHEADS | 564 | 38.8% | 60.4% |
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 OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Saratoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.5% | #316 of 766 | #7 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #465 of 768 ▼ 62 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #547 of 768 ▼ 62 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 631 | #254 of 796 | #6 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #599 of 683 | #5 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.2% | #650 of 688 | #7 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.7% | #540 of 773 | #2 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.6% | #328 of 524 | #2 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
631
-85 (-12%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 589
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 631 | 50 | 12.6:1 | 39% (244) |
| 2023-24 | 659 | 53.3 | 12.4:1 | 40% (262) |
| 2022-23 | 668 | 52.3 | 12.8:1 | 37% (248) |
| 2020-21 | 716 | 55 | 13.0:1 | 36% (258) |
| 2017-18 | 698 | 54 | 12.9:1 | 35% (241) |
| 2015-16 | 733 | 56 | 13.1:1 | 33% (244) |
| 2010-11 | 758 | 72 | 10.5:1 | 19% (142) |
| 2000-01 | 491 | 36 | 13.6:1 | 29% (140) |
| 1990-91 | 589 | 38 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL
OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle-grades school with its address in SOUTH GLENS FALLS, New York. The school reports 631 students in grades 6 through 8.
SOUTH GLENS FALLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (6 schools, 2,883 students) runs OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
White students are the large majority at OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 94% of enrollment. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 11%.
The school has about 12.6 students per teacher and 50 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among middle schools in New York is 10.3:1, lower than at this school. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 30% average among public schools in Saratoga County.
The allk12 Grade for OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL is B-. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 51% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4.2 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in Saratoga County, where median household income is about $100,787, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 50 public schools in Saratoga County, which together enroll about 30,097 students.
The shortest distance from OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL to another public school is about 1.2 miles, to ABRAHAM WING SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Small).
The number of students declined from 716 to 631 over 4 years.
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Saratoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
238,284
Census ACS
Median income
$100,787
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
30,097 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTH GLENS FALLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SOUTH GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 939 students
- TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 425 students
- BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 311 students
- HARRISON AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 294 students
- MOREAU ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 283 students
Other schools in SOUTH GLENS FALLS
- SOUTH GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 939 students
- TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 425 students
- HARRISON AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 294 students
- MOREAU ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 283 students
Nearby schools
- ABRAHAM WING SCHOOL1.2 mi · 139
- BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOL1.3 mi · 211
- MOREAU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 283
- GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 628
- SOUTH GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 939
- GLENS FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 610
Frequently asked questions
About OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 631 students in grades 06-08.
Is OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 12.6:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 94% White, 4% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
OLIVER W WINCH MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by SOUTH GLENS FALLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Saratoga County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.