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Enrollment
553
Middle
DISTRICT 619 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOMERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362718003702
SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
250 RT 202, SOMERS, NY 10589 · (914) 277-3399 · Westchester County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL553 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
9.0:1
61 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
78 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 6 | 184 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 185 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 181 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL→SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SOMERS 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
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
100.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 100 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 100.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
72.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (72.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 553 | 14.1% | 72.1% |
| WILLIAM T ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL KINGS PARK | 588 | 14.8% | 70.9% |
| OAKDALE-BOHEMIA MIDDLE SCHOOL OAKDALE | 564 | 15.8% | 64.1% |
| EAST NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL EAST NORTHPORT | 633 | 15.2% | 69.0% |
| PEARL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL PEARL RIVER | 501 | 16.6% | 67.0% |
| PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT SCHOOL CROTON ON HUDSON | 463 | 12.7% | 77.0% |
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 SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.1% | #110 of 766 | #20 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 100% | #43 of 768 ▲ 4 | #5 of 40 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #154 of 768 ▲ 36 | #24 of 40 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 553 | #321 of 796 | #20 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.0:1 | #128 of 683 | #6 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.1% | #459 of 688 | #35 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.1% | #737 of 773 | #24 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.4% | #84 of 524 | #2 of 30 |
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
553
-99 (-15%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 512
Student : Teacher
9.0:1
was 10.2:1
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 | 553 | 61.2 | 9.0:1 | 14% (78) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 62.4 | 9.0:1 | 13% (71) |
| 2022-23 | 569 | 61.6 | 9.2:1 | 9% (53) |
| 2020-21 | 652 | 64 | 10.2:1 | 9% (61) |
| 2017-18 | 772 | 58.6 | 13.2:1 | 8% (61) |
| 2015-16 | 817 | 60 | 13.6:1 | 8% (64) |
| 2010-11 | 868 | 65 | 13.3:1 | 4% (37) |
| 2000-01 | 640 | 56 | 11.4:1 | 6% (36) |
| 1990-91 | 512 | 48 | 10.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public middle school in SOMERS, New York. It enrolled 553 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year.
The district, SOMERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 4 schools serving 2,475 students.
White students are the majority at SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 75% of enrollment. Other groups make up 17% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Westchester County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school's share is higher. The school's diversity index is 40%, meaning two students picked at random have a 40% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at the school number 61.2 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 9.0:1. This ratio sits 1.3 below the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. Roughly 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Westchester County is 38%.
SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 77% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL would be expected to post about 69.8%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 72.1%.
Westchester County census figures show that the median household income is $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 255 public schools in Westchester County, enrolling about 140,968 students in all.
The shortest distance from SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to SOMERS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Rural: Fringe, means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
2024-25 enrollment was 553, a 15% decrease from 652 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 10.2:1 in 2020-21, and 9.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOMERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 847 students
- SOMERS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 560 students
- PRIMROSE SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
Other Somers Middle schools
One other US public school is named Somers Middle. SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Somers Middle SchoolSomers, MT · 231 students
Nearby schools
- SOMERS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 560
- SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 847
- PRIMROSE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 515
- INCREASE MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.4 mi · 479
- LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 598
- FULMAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 485
Frequently asked questions
About SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 553 students in grades 06-08.
Is SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 61 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 75% White, 17% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by SOMERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Westchester County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.