RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL

RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the tiny 6-8 campuss in SHORTSVILLE, New York, part of MANCHESTER-SHORTSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (RED JACKET), with 160 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 70% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

Within MANCHESTER-SHORTSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (RED JACKET), which oversees 3 schools and 715 students, RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ontario County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.7%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ontario County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,324, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Ontario County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,114 students), RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RED JACKET HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.0%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 166 (now 160). Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 6.8:1 in 2025.

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