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Enrollment
912
Middle
DISTRICT 739 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363147000457
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL
8730 TRANSIT RD, EAST AMHERST, NY 14051 · (716) 626-8700 · Erie County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL912 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of New York public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
11.7:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
149 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 5 | 234 | 26% |
| Grade 6 | 228 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 221 | 24% |
| Grade 8 | 227 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
56%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
82.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
87.1%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 87.1% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 89.5% |
% 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
82.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (82.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 912 | 16.3% | 82.4% |
| ROSLYN MIDDLE SCHOOL ROSLYN HEIGHTS | 802 | 16.6% | 79.9% |
| H B MATTLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 783 | 11.0% | 79.8% |
| GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL GREAT NECK | 728 | 24.7% | 80.1% |
| ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL ARDSLEY | 790 | 12.8% | 80.1% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL BETHPAGE | 759 | 26.1% | 71.5% |
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 TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.4% | #39 of 766 | #1 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #130 of 768 ▼ 20 | #2 of 32 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #35 of 768 ▼ 3 | #1 of 32 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 912 | #107 of 796 | #5 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #523 of 683 | #29 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.9% | #249 of 688 | #9 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.3% | #723 of 773 | #30 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.4% | #375 of 524 | #13 of 21 |
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
912
+26 (+3%) vs 2020
-16% since 2000-01, when it was 1,082
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 912 | 77.8 | 11.7:1 | 16% (149) |
| 2023-24 | 899 | 76.8 | 11.7:1 | 16% (143) |
| 2022-23 | 872 | 75 | 11.6:1 | 17% (144) |
| 2020-21 | 886 | 70 | 12.7:1 | 14% (124) |
| 2017-18 | 985 | 75.1 | 13.1:1 | 11% (104) |
| 2015-16 | 973 | 67 | 14.5:1 | 9% (88) |
| 2010-11 | 971 | 79 | 12.3:1 | 9% (86) |
| 2000-01 | 1,082 | 78 | 13.9:1 | 3% (29) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a high-enrollment middle-grades school in EAST AMHERST, New York. Students in grades 5 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 912 students. Middle schools in New York have about 531 students on average; enrollment here is 72% higher.
WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 13 schools and 9,598 students, and TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The student body at TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL is 60% White. Other reported shares: 28% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Erie County's residents are about 74% White, 14 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 56, compared with 70 nationally.
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL reported 77.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 11.7:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in New York is 10.3:1. There are 149 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 16% of enrollment. The 51% average for public schools in Erie County is 35 points higher.
Among New York public middle schools, TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 93%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL is 13.4 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (82.4% versus 69.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
The school's county is Erie County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $72,839 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Public schools in Erie County number 226, with about 122,519 students.
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.5 miles from WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOL, its nearest public school. TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency of 82.4% compares with 79.6% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Under the NCES locale system, TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL had a net gain of 26 students, or 3%.
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Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,307 students
- WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 940 students
- WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 796 students
- MILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 790 students
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 670 students
- HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 661 students
Other schools in EAST AMHERST
- WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 940 students
- CASEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 606 students
- DODGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
Nearby schools
- WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 940
- COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 566
- MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 597
- CASEY MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 606
- WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL2.3 mi · 1,307
- DODGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 590
Frequently asked questions
About TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 912 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 11.7:1 (78 FTE teachers).
How diverse is TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 60% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 28% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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