PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 17 SCHOOL ST, in PERU, New York, PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL is a low-enrollment junior high that educates 406 students (grades 6 through 8), run under PERU CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 24% below typical.

Across the 3 schools in PERU CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,793 students total), PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school reports having 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Clinton County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.0%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Clinton County) records that median household earnings sit near $71,224, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Clinton County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,729 students), PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PERU HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

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