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Enrollment
749
Middle
DISTRICT 718 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362937003962
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
1701 NOYES ST, UTICA, NY 13502 · (315) 368-6541 · Oneida County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL749 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test 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
12.0:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
625 students
DISTRICT 77% · 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 7 | 357 | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 367 | 49% |
| Ungraded | 25 | 3% |
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL→THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within UTICA CITY 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
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
50.4%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 50.4% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 46.2% |
% 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
48.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (48.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 749 | 83.4% | 48.3% |
| JHS 278 MARINE PARK BROOKLYN | 841 | 79.9% | 52.1% |
| MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 569 | 80.5% | 23.3% |
| CENTRAL PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 600 | 76.3% | 33.3% |
| ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 657 | 79.5% | 33.5% |
| JHS 226 VIRGIL I GRISSON SOUTH OZONE PARK | 826 | 91.5% | 44.5% |
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 SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #461 of 766 | #9 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.4% | #498 of 768 ▲ 28 | #9 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #592 of 768 ▼ 105 | #10 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 749 | #188 of 796 | #2 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #556 of 683 | #9 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.9% | #2 of 688 | #1 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.4% | #207 of 773 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.6% | #111 of 168 | N/A |
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
749
-41 (-5%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 782
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 749 | 62.3 | 12.0:1 | 83% (625) |
| 2023-24 | 763 | 61.1 | 12.5:1 | 84% (642) |
| 2022-23 | 730 | 64.2 | 11.4:1 | 84% (611) |
| 2020-21 | 790 | 61 | 12.9:1 | 93% (735) |
| 2017-18 | 716 | 57.1 | 12.5:1 | 88% (632) |
| 2015-16 | 712 | 55 | 12.9:1 | 86% (612) |
| 2010-11 | 1,008 | 100 | 10.1:1 | 78% (789) |
| 2000-01 | 967 | 70 | 13.8:1 | 68% (658) |
| 1990-91 | 782 | 79 | 9.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school with a street address in UTICA, New York. School enrollment was 749 students in 2024-25, in grades 7 through 8. For comparison, middle schools in New York average about 531 students.
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of a district of 13 schools: UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 9,075 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is Black (26%). Other students are 24% Hispanic, 24% Asian, 18% White, and 7% multiracial. That is higher than the 6% Black share among all Oneida County residents. By the diversity index, SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 78%.
At SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, 62.3 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 12.0:1. That ratio is over the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 83% of enrollment. The 47% average for public schools in Oneida County is 36 points lower.
allk12 grades SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL a B-. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, the prediction is 44.3% and the result is 48.3%.
Among Oneida County residents, median household income is about $70,154, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 72 public schools in Oneida County, with a combined enrollment of about 32,265.
MOHAWK VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH is the public school closest to SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 48.3% against a local average of 45.2%.
The NCES locale for SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 5% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Oneida County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,124
Census ACS
Median income
$70,154
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
32,265 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,820 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 687 students
- GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 634 students
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 618 students
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
- KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 585 students
Other schools in UTICA
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,820 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 687 students
- GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 634 students
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 618 students
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
- KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 585 students
Nearby schools
- MOHAWK VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH0.1 mi · 23
- KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 585
- JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 347
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 590
- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 303
- NEW YORK MILLS SCHOOL1.6 mi · 521
Frequently asked questions
About SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 749 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 07-08.
How many students per teacher at SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.0:1 students per teacher at SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 18% White, 24% Hispanic, 26% Black, 24% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.