SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL

SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school of moderately sized scale in SCOTIA, New York, one of the schools within SCOTIA-GLENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 489 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within SCOTIA-GLENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 2,102 students, SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 7% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 36% of students at SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. 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, SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.8%, the actual is 68.5%, a residual of +6.7 points.

Across the wider county, Schenectady County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,623 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Schenectady County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students), SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SACANDAGA SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 47.5%.

SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 21%, going from 619 students in 2018 to 489 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 93% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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