Enrollment
311
Middle
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362736001137
SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL
4264 EAST RD, TURIN, NY 13473 · (315) 348-2570 · Lewis County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL311 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 59% of New York public middle schools
- BTest 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
10.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
182 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 5 | 80 | 26% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 74 | 24% |
| Grade 8 | 75 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL→SOUTH LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SOUTH LEWIS 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
50.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 56.8% |
% 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
55.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (55.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 311 | 58.5% | 55.6% |
| NORWOOD-NORFOLK MIDDLE SCHOOL NORWOOD | 276 | 57.2% | 46.3% |
| WAYLAND-COHOCTON MIDDLE SCHOOL WAYLAND | 390 | 59.0% | 45.4% |
| NEWARK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL NEWARK VALLEY | 278 | 54.0% | 32.2% |
| NORWICH MIDDLE SCHOOL NORWICH | 381 | 57.5% | 51.5% |
| PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL PERU | 406 | 59.1% | 49.0% |
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 SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #333 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #402 of 768 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #348 of 768 ▼ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 311 | #544 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #404 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.7% | #647 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.5% | #354 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.2% | #39 of 168 |
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
311
+58 (+23%) vs 2020
-10% since 2000-01, when it was 346
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 8.7:1
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 | 311 | 29.1 | 10.7:1 | 59% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 315 | 28.6 | 11.0:1 | 60% (190) |
| 2022-23 | 308 | 29.7 | 10.4:1 | 61% (189) |
| 2020-21 | 253 | 29 | 8.7:1 | 66% (166) |
| 2017-18 | 270 | 21.5 | 12.5:1 | 66% (178) |
| 2015-16 | 335 | 20 | 16.8:1 | 64% (215) |
| 2010-11 | 212 | 19 | 11.2:1 | 54% (115) |
| 2000-01 | 346 | 26 | 13.3:1 | 46% (158) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL
TURIN, New York, is home to SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL, a low-enrollment middle-grades school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 311 students in grades 5 through 8. Against the 531-student average for middle schools in New York, enrollment here is 41% lower.
The 3 schools of SOUTH LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, including SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL, enroll 1,035 students.
White students are the large majority at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 94% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 3% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. The White share in Lewis County as a whole is similar, at about 94%. The chance that two students picked at random at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 12%.
Teachers at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL total 29.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.7:1. Middle schools in New York average about 10.3:1, a similar figure. The school counts 182 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 59%. Among public schools in Lewis County, the average eligibility rate is 45%.
The allk12 Grade for SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is B. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 59% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 53.5% at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 55.6%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Lewis County show that median household income is about $68,182, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 13 public schools in Lewis County, with a combined enrollment of about 4,082.
The school nearest to SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are 2 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 60.2%; SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL's is 55.6%, ranking 5th of 9.
SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the Rural: Remote locale category, used for schools in rural territory far from an urban area.
SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL saw enrollment rise 23% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. The ratio was 8.7:1 in 2020-21 and 10.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Lewis County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
26,607
Census ACS
Median income
$68,182
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
4,082 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTH LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 452 students
- SOUTH LEWIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 272 students
Other schools in TURIN
- SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 452 students
- SOUTH LEWIS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 272 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 452
- SOUTH LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 272
- BOONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL11.0 mi · 420
- ADIRONDACK MIDDLE SCHOOL11.0 mi · 243
- ADIRONDACK HIGH SCHOOL11.1 mi · 383
- LOWVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL11.7 mi · 628
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 311 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 94% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SOUTH LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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