TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL

TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL, a roomy 6-8 campus in EAST AMHERST, New York, operated by WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 912 students, covering grades 5 through 8. That puts it 72% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Within WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 13 schools and 9,598 students, TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.0%, the actual is 82.4%, a residual of +13.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate median household income runs about $72,839, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

Nearest neighbor: WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 79.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 985 (now 912). The White share of enrollment edged down from 72% to 60% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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