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QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL
QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized junior high in QUEENSBURY, New York, run under QUEENSBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 671 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 26% bigger than the state mean of about 531.
Across the 4 schools in QUEENSBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,028 students total), QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.6%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Warren County shows median household earnings sit near $78,442, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Warren County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,825 students), QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: QUEENSBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL has declined 11%, going from 753 students in 2018 to 671 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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