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Enrollment
873
Middle
DISTRICT 757 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362721003710
SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
329 SAND CREEK RD, ALBANY, NY 12205 · (518) 459-1333 · Albany County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL873 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New York public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
10.9:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
414 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 | 192 | 22% |
| Grade 6 | 223 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 198 | 23% |
| Grade 8 | 238 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 22 | 3% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL→COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL 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
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
68.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 68.2% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 67.1% |
% 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
54.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (54.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 873 | 47.4% | 54.8% |
| HENRY V BURGER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WEST HENRIETTA | 694 | 45.0% | 62.3% |
| EMMA E SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HENRIETTA | 578 | 51.2% | 60.5% |
| MARY K VOLLMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST HENRIETTA | 700 | 48.1% | 58.4% |
| SWEET HOME MIDDLE SCHOOL AMHERST | 858 | 41.1% | 52.6% |
| IS 7 ELIAS BERNSTEIN STATEN ISLAND | 1,177 | 48.4% | 81.7% |
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 SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Albany County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #343 of 766 | #6 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #284 of 768 ▲ 6 | #8 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #364 of 768 ▼ 4 | #6 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 873 | #121 of 796 | #4 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #439 of 683 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.7% | #92 of 688 | #4 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.4% | #442 of 773 | #5 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.8% | #95 of 168 | #4 of 6 |
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
873
+44 (+5%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 892
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 873 | 79.8 | 10.9:1 | 47% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 882 | 76.2 | 11.6:1 | 48% (423) |
| 2022-23 | 868 | 70.1 | 12.4:1 | 46% (397) |
| 2020-21 | 829 | 65 | 12.8:1 | 40% (334) |
| 2017-18 | 825 | 63 | 13.1:1 | 38% (314) |
| 2015-16 | 788 | 61 | 12.9:1 | 28% (217) |
| 2010-11 | 869 | 80 | 10.9:1 | 21% (181) |
| 2000-01 | 1,048 | 83 | 12.6:1 | 18% (192) |
| 1990-91 | 892 | 55 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in ALBANY, New York, and is classified as a middle school. It offers grades 5 through 8 and has 873 students enrolled. By comparison, middle schools in New York enroll about 531 students on average.
SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 8 schools in SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 5,040 students in total.
White students are 51% of those enrolled at SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 17% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 9% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Albany County's population at about 69%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 68%.
There are 79.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 10.9:1. It is about the same as the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Of all students at SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, 47% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Albany County average a similar 45%.
On the allk12 Grade, SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at B-, ahead of 52% of New York public middle schools.
A school with SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 57.5%. SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 54.8%, 2.7 points below that line.
For the population of Albany County, the median household earns about $85,333 a year, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Across Albany County, 75 public schools serve about 39,946 students.
COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest public school to SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 63.0% proficiency; SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 54.8%.
Under the NCES locale system, SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 873, up from 829 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 10.9 students per teacher, compared with 12.8 in 2020-21.
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Albany County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
317,018
Census ACS
Median income
$85,333
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
39,946 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
- VEEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 503 students
- ROESSLEVILLE SCHOOLElementary · 368 students
- SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 354 students
- SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 351 students
Other schools in ALBANY
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 840 students
- KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 688 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
- WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 615 students
Nearby schools
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,640
- ROESSLEVILLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 368
- SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 354
- FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 311
- SOUTHGATE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 369
- MONTESSORI MAGNET SCHOOL1.6 mi · 322
Frequently asked questions
About SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 873 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 51% White, 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 17% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.