RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in RAVENA, New York, RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL works with 375 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Within RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,724 students, RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Albany County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 43% of students at RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.3%; this one delivers 45.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Albany County indicate median household income runs about $85,333, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Albany County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students), RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.8%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 409 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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