Enrollment
354
Middle
DISTRICT 409 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALMYRA-MACEDON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362238003152
PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL
163 HYDE PKWY, PALMYRA, NY 14522 · (315) 597-3450 · Wayne County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL354 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test 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
9.3:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
137 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 118 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 117 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 115 | 32% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · 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
PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL→PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within PALMYRA-MACEDON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
37.7%
NY avg 57.4% . -62.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 62 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 37.7% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
47.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% 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 PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL
PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (47.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 354 | 38.7% | 47.5% |
| GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL SPRINGVILLE | 349 | 39.0% | 45.9% |
| SARANAC MIDDLE SCHOOL SARANAC | 361 | 37.7% | 46.1% |
| WILLIAM H GOLDING MIDDLE SCHOOL COBLESKILL | 344 | 41.0% | 50.1% |
| HOMER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL HOMER | 397 | 40.8% | 53.2% |
| NEWFANE MIDDLE SCHOOL NEWFANE | 363 | 35.3% | 47.4% |
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 PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #474 of 766 | #6 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #649 of 768 ▼ 608 | #9 of 10 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #522 of 768 ▲ 107 | #4 of 10 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 354 | #497 of 796 | #3 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #158 of 683 | #3 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.9% | #646 of 688 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.7% | #538 of 773 | #8 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.4% | #109 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
354
-70 (-17%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 470
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 354 | 38.3 | 9.3:1 | 39% (137) |
| 2023-24 | 363 | 40.2 | 9.0:1 | 44% (161) |
| 2022-23 | 367 | 40.3 | 9.1:1 | 46% (170) |
| 2020-21 | 424 | 40 | 10.6:1 | 41% (173) |
| 2017-18 | 462 | 43.5 | 10.6:1 | 42% (196) |
| 2015-16 | 407 | 40 | 10.2:1 | 36% (146) |
| 2010-11 | 458 | 49 | 9.3:1 | 30% (137) |
| 2000-01 | 525 | 50 | 10.5:1 | 18% (96) |
| 1990-91 | 470 | 37 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL
PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small middle school in PALMYRA-MACEDON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, located in PALMYRA, New York. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 354 students. The average among middle schools in New York is roughly 531 students; this school is 33% smaller than that.
PALMYRA-MACEDON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools with a combined 1,637 students. PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of them.
White students make up 94% of enrollment at PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL. The remaining shares are 3% multiracial and 2% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 12% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 9.3:1, with 38.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Lunch subsidy eligibility at PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL is 39%. Among public schools in Wayne County, the average eligibility rate is 47%.
PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded C by allk12, scoring above 25% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL, the prediction is 60.8% and the result is 47.5%.
In Wayne County (population about 90,929), the median household income is $74,506, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. There are 37 public schools in Wayne County, enrolling about 13,068 students in all.
The next-closest public school is PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 3. On proficiency, PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL is behind the 57.2% nearby average, ranking 6th of 8.
PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as Town: Fringe in federal locale data.
Enrollment declined 17% from its 2020-21 level of 424. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 10.6:1 to 9.3:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
90,929
Census ACS
Median income
$74,506
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
13,068 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PALMYRA-MACEDON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 513 students
- PALMYRA-MACEDON PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 431 students
- PALMYRA-MACEDON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 339 students
Other schools in PALMYRA
- PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 513 students
- PALMYRA-MACEDON PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 431 students
Nearby schools
- PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 513
- PALMYRA-MACEDON PRIMARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 431
- PALMYRA-MACEDON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL3.1 mi · 339
- RUBEN A CIRILLO HIGH SCHOOL5.4 mi · 256
- RICHARD MANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.5 mi · 407
- GANANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL5.7 mi · 176
Frequently asked questions
About PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 354 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 9.3:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of PALMYRA-MACEDON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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