Enrollment
200
Middle
DISTRICT 304 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362688005588
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
1 DICKINSON ST, SILVER CREEK, NY 14136 · (716) 934-2603 · Chautauqua County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL200 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% 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.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
6.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
107 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 6 | 58 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 78 | 39% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 1% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL→SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SILVER CREEK 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
32.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
50.5%
NY avg 57.4% . +14.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 50.5% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 36.2% |
% 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
47.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (47.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 200 | 53.5% | 47.4% |
| SIDNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL SIDNEY | 169 | 50.3% | 46.0% |
| RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL SHORTSVILLE | 160 | 52.5% | 52.0% |
| CLYDE-SAVANNAH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CLYDE | 180 | 58.3% | 35.7% |
| COHEN MIDDLE SCHOOL ELMIRA HEIGHTS | 251 | 57.0% | 54.1% |
| SENECA FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOL SENECA FALLS | 266 | 47.7% | 41.5% |
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 SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Chautauqua County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #478 of 766 | #4 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #496 of 768 ▲ 153 | #3 of 6 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #670 of 768 ▼ 13 | #4 of 6 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 200 | #688 of 796 | #6 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 6.5:1 | #3 of 683 | #1 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.8% | #363 of 688 | #4 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.5% | #388 of 773 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.9% | #138 of 524 | 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
200
-43 (-18%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 235
Student : Teacher
6.5:1
was 9.3:1
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 | 200 | 30.8 | 6.5:1 | 54% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 218 | 29.5 | 7.4:1 | 56% (123) |
| 2022-23 | 231 | 28 | 8.3:1 | 56% (130) |
| 2020-21 | 243 | 26 | 9.3:1 | 60% (147) |
| 2017-18 | 253 | 22.5 | 11.2:1 | 56% (141) |
| 2015-16 | 240 | 18 | 13.3:1 | 62% (149) |
| 2010-11 | 235 | 19 | 12.4:1 | 43% (102) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL runs as a small middle school in SILVER CREEK, New York. It enrolled 200 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, middle schools in New York average about 531 students each.
SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools with a combined 912 students. SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of them.
White students are the majority at SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 70% of enrollment. Other groups make up 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, and 8% Native American. Chautauqua County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 49% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, 30.8 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 6.5:1. On average, middle schools in New York have 10.3:1, compared with 6.5:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 54% of enrollment.
allk12 grades SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL a C. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 47.4% and a predicted 55.3%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Chautauqua County show that the median household income is $58,351, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Besides SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, Chautauqua County has 50 other public schools.
The school nearest to SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. A five-mile radius around the school includes 4 other public schools. SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL places 4th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is in rural territory close to an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment is down 18% from 2020-21, when SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL had 243 students, to 2024-25, when it had 200. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 6.5:1, from 9.3:1.
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Chautauqua County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
125,544
Census ACS
Median income
$58,351
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
17,056 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 284 students
Other schools in SILVER CREEK
- SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 284 students
Other Silver Creek Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Silver Creek Middle. SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Silver Creek MiddleKensington, MD · 751 students
- Silver Creek Middle SchoolSellersburg, IN · 748 students
Nearby schools
- SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 428
- SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 284
- FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL4.6 mi · 185
- FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.7 mi · 211
- A J SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.6 mi · 247
- SCHOOL 78.2 mi · 134
Frequently asked questions
About SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 200 students in grades 06-08.
Is SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 6.5:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 70% White, 10% Hispanic, 2% Black, 12% Two or more.
What district is SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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