SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL

SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the average-sized intermediate schools in SCHENECTADY, New York, overseen by SCHALMONT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 537 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8.

SCHALMONT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,753 students. SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Schenectady County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 63.4%; actual is 44.4%, a gap of -19.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Schenectady County shows median household earnings sit near $79,623, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Schenectady County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students), SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL has fell 5%, going from 567 students in 2018 to 537 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 86% to 78%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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