PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL

PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as an average-sized middle-grades school in EAST SYRACUSE, New York, overseen by EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 697 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 31% above that benchmark.

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,411 students. PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 8% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Onondaga County indicate median household income runs about $76,945, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Onondaga County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WOODLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 56.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 741 students in 2018 compared to 697 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 87% to 78% over that span.

On this page, members of the PINE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.