1
What advice would you give to incoming students at POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
871
Middle
DISTRICT 532 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362376003308
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL
55 COLLEGE AVE, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12603 · (845) 451-4800 · Dutchess County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL871 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of New York public middle schools
- FTest 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
11.6:1
75 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
735 students
DISTRICT 85% · 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 5 | 4 | 0% |
| Grade 6 | 262 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 299 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 291 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 15 | 2% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL→POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within POUGHKEEPSIE CITY 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
23.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
15.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 15.0% |
| 2023-24 | 21.0% | 19.4% |
% 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
29.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (29.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 871 | 84.4% | 29.6% |
| IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS STATEN ISLAND | 871 | 84.5% | 36.2% |
| KIPP BEYOND CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 548 | 79.6% | 78.3% |
| DR. FREDDIE THOMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 512 | 88.9% | N/A |
| MS 180 DR DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS BRONX | 762 | 85.6% | 38.5% |
| NORTHWEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 487 | 89.9% | 11.4% |
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 POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Dutchess County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #726 of 766 | #14 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #757 of 768 ▼ 11 | #14 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #740 of 768 ▲ 6 | #14 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 871 | #123 of 796 | #3 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #515 of 683 | #11 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.0% | #173 of 688 | #6 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.4% | #199 of 773 | #1 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.7% | #431 of 524 | #12 of 13 |
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
871
-61 (-7%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 774
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 871 | 74.9 | 11.6:1 | 84% (735) |
| 2023-24 | 872 | 75.2 | 11.6:1 | 80% (701) |
| 2022-23 | 877 | 76.6 | 11.4:1 | 82% (716) |
| 2020-21 | 932 | 82 | 11.4:1 | 72% (673) |
| 2017-18 | 914 | 72 | 12.7:1 | 69% (628) |
| 2015-16 | 933 | 73 | 12.8:1 | 80% (745) |
| 2010-11 | 1,017 | 68 | 15.0:1 | 90% (911) |
| 2000-01 | 1,035 | 80 | 12.9:1 | 78% (803) |
| 1990-91 | 774 | 78 | 9.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL
A high-enrollment middle-grades school in POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Federal data show 871 students enrolled in grades 5 through 8 in 2024-25. Across middle schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 531.
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the 7 schools that make up POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,724 students in total).
Black students account for 46% of enrollment at POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL, more than any other group. Enrollment also includes 41% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 3% White. Among people living in Dutchess County, the Black share is about 10%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 61%.
Teacher count: 74.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 11.6:1. Compared with the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York, this school's ratio is higher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 84%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Dutchess County is 40%.
Among New York public middle schools, POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 4%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 44.0%. POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 29.6%.
The school is in Dutchess County, where median household income comes to about $99,478, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Dutchess County counts 76 public schools with about 36,885 students.
Of the public schools around it, POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 36.5%; POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL's is 29.6%, ranking 5th of 8.
For locale, NCES codes POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL as City: Small.
From 932 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 871 by 2024-25.
The allk12 page for POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL lets the school community talk about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
Dutchess County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,220
Census ACS
Median income
$99,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
36,885 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,151 students
- S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- G W KRIEGER SCHOOLElementary · 419 students
- SMITH EARLY LEARNING CENTERElementary · 328 students
- CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 286 students
- GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOLElementary · 237 students
Other schools in POUGHKEEPSIE
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,151 students
- SPACKENKILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 537 students
- ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOLElementary · 496 students
- OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 455 students
- S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- TITUSVILLE INTERMEDIATEElementary · 425 students
Nearby schools
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,151
- SMITH EARLY LEARNING CENTER0.3 mi · 328
- G W KRIEGER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 419
- GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL0.9 mi · 237
- CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 286
- ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 496
Frequently asked questions
About POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 871 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many teachers does POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 75 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1.
How diverse is POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 3% White, 41% Hispanic, 46% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.