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Enrollment
641
Middle
DISTRICT 687 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH ORANGETOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362745003739
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL
160 VAN WYCK RD, BLAUVELT, NY 10913 · (845) 680-1103 · Rockland County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL641 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- C-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
9.3:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
121 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 227 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 202 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 212 | 33% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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 ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL→TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SOUTH ORANGETOWN 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
51.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
74.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 74.2% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 68.1% |
% 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
58.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (58.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 641 | 18.9% | 58.5% |
| HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL HAUPPAUGE | 725 | 22.3% | 66.2% |
| OLDFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL GREENLAWN | 627 | 18.2% | 69.6% |
| GREAT HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL NESCONSET | 750 | 17.2% | 70.5% |
| SCHOOL 9M-OCEANSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL OCEANSIDE | 801 | 21.0% | 69.6% |
| MILDRED E STRANG MIDDLE SCHOOL YORKTOWN HEIGHTS | 793 | 15.0% | 77.6% |
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 ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Rockland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #283 of 766 | #4 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.2% | #238 of 768 ▲ 45 | #2 of 14 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #330 of 768 ▲ 31 | #7 of 15 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 641 | #245 of 796 | #8 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #159 of 683 | #1 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.8% | #235 of 688 | #8 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.9% | #704 of 773 | #14 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.6% | #281 of 524 | #4 of 8 |
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
641
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 521
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
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 | 641 | 69.3 | 9.3:1 | 19% (121) |
| 2023-24 | 642 | 69.4 | 9.3:1 | 21% (134) |
| 2022-23 | 633 | 68.6 | 9.2:1 | 20% (127) |
| 2020-21 | 658 | 71 | 9.3:1 | 15% (97) |
| 2017-18 | 725 | 63.1 | 11.5:1 | 15% (107) |
| 2015-16 | 769 | 63 | 12.2:1 | 11% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 843 | 63 | 13.4:1 | 6% (50) |
| 2000-01 | 720 | 58 | 12.4:1 | 6% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 521 | 46 | 11.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school in New York, located in BLAUVELT. Enrollment totals 641 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 21% above the 531-student average for middle schools in New York.
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL is run by SOUTH ORANGETOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 4 schools enroll 2,747 students.
At SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL, 61% of students are White. The remaining students are 23% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put Rockland County at about 62% White, close to the school's figure. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 57%.
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL reported 69.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 9.3:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in New York is 10.3:1. There are 121 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 19% of enrollment. That is lower than the 48% average for public schools in Rockland County.
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 45% of New York public middle schools.
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 9.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (58.5% versus 68.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
In the wider Rockland County area, median household income comes to about $109,959, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Rockland County counts 66 public schools with about 41,335 students.
Measured in a straight line, COTTAGE LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.8 miles from SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 5th of 7 on proficiency.
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment decreased 3% over 4 years, reaching 641 in 2024-25.
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Rockland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
341,883
Census ACS
Median income
$109,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
41,335 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTH ORANGETOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 911 students
- COTTAGE LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 636 students
- WILLIAM O SCHAEFER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 559 students
Nearby schools
- COTTAGE LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 636
- ROCKLAND CHILDREN'S PSYCHIATRIC CENTER1.1 mi · 11
- TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 911
- BIRCHWOOD SCHOOL1.5 mi · 66
- PEARL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 501
- PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 904
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 641 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.3:1 students per teacher at SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 61% White, 23% Hispanic, 2% Black, 10% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SOUTH ORANGETOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.