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Enrollment
956
Middle
DISTRICT 732 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362346003277
PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
113 BOWMAN AVE, PORT CHESTER, NY 10573 · (914) 934-7930 · Westchester County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL956 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 48% 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.
- BBeats 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
10.7:1
89 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
664 students
DISTRICT 64% · 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 | 344 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 311 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 290 | 30% |
| Ungraded | 11 | 1% |
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · 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
PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL→PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE 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
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
41.4%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 41.4% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 44.7% |
% 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
49.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (49.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 956 | 69.5% | 49.7% |
| RALPH REED SCHOOL CENTRAL ISLIP | 1,192 | 61.9% | 33.7% |
| HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAVERSTRAW | 662 | 61.3% | 26.0% |
| ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL NEW ROCHELLE | 1,122 | 76.3% | 49.1% |
| WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 906 | 82.2% | 36.9% |
| CAROLINE G ATKINSON SCHOOL FREEPORT | 882 | 67.6% | 36.1% |
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 PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.7% | #433 of 766 | #32 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #621 of 768 ▼ 63 | #37 of 40 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #606 of 768 ▼ 87 | #38 of 40 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 956 | #84 of 796 | #8 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #417 of 683 | #30 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.4% | #586 of 688 | #39 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.5% | #296 of 773 | #4 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.0% | #294 of 524 | #14 of 30 |
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
956
-110 (-10%) vs 2020
+60% since 1990-91, when it was 598
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 956 | 89 | 10.7:1 | 69% (664) |
| 2023-24 | 926 | 92 | 10.1:1 | 79% (733) |
| 2022-23 | 971 | 86.7 | 11.2:1 | 75% (728) |
| 2020-21 | 1,066 | 84 | 12.7:1 | 76% (815) |
| 2017-18 | 1,074 | 84.1 | 12.8:1 | 72% (777) |
| 2015-16 | 1,097 | 78 | 14.1:1 | 72% (789) |
| 2010-11 | 884 | 63 | 14.0:1 | 61% (535) |
| 2000-01 | 967 | 69 | 14.0:1 | 67% (644) |
| 1990-91 | 598 | 46 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle school for students in PORT CHESTER, New York. It enrolled 956 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, middle schools in New York average about 531 students each.
PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 4,392 students spread across 6 schools.
The large majority of students at PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, 87%, are Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 9% White and 2% Black. Among all residents of Westchester County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. By the diversity index, PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 23%.
Its teaching staff equals 89 full-time positions, a ratio of 10.7:1. Across middle schools in New York, the average ratio is about 10.3:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 69%. That is 31 points above the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County.
The allk12 Grade for PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is B-. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 48% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
After adjusting for student poverty, PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 49.7%; the prediction is 49.5%.
Westchester County has about 999,677 residents, and median household income is about $118,976, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 255 public schools in Westchester County, with a combined enrollment of about 140,968.
The nearest public school is PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, at about 0.5 miles. PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On average proficiency, PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2nd of 6 nearby schools with test data.
In the federal locale system, PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 1,066 in 2020-21 and 956 in 2024-25, a 10% decrease. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.7:1) than in 2020-21 (12.7:1).
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 725 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- KING STREET SCHOOLElementary · 374 students
- THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
Other schools in PORT CHESTER
- PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 725 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- KING STREET SCHOOLElementary · 374 students
- THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
Nearby schools
- PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,549
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 432
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 725
- WESTCHESTER BOCES1.1 mi · 316
- THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL1.3 mi · 356
- KING STREET SCHOOL1.3 mi · 374
Frequently asked questions
About PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 956 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.7:1 (89 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 9% White, 87% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Westchester County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.