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What's something VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
847
Middle
DISTRICT 486 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VESTAL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362961003985
VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
600 S BENITA BLVD, VESTAL, NY 13850 · (607) 757-2331 · Broome County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL847 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test 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
12.1:1
70 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
279 students
DISTRICT 33% · 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 | 285 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 283 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 277 | 33% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL→VESTAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within VESTAL 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
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
68.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 68.8% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 73.8% |
% 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
65.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (65.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 847 | 32.9% | 65.0% |
| KODA MIDDLE SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 765 | 26.9% | 77.7% |
| ACADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 761 | 25.2% | 77.9% |
| FARNSWORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL GUILDERLAND | 1,186 | 27.2% | 71.7% |
| HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 648 | 26.2% | 69.7% |
| JAMESVILLE-DEWITT MIDDLE SCHOOL JAMESVILLE | 693 | 28.7% | 74.6% |
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 VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Broome County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #199 of 766 | #2 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.8% | #279 of 768 ▼ 39 | #2 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #221 of 768 ▼ 57 | #2 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 847 | #132 of 796 | #1 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #563 of 683 | #7 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.7% | #349 of 688 | #5 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.9% | #591 of 773 | #10 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.5% | #74 of 168 | N/A |
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
847
+107 (+14%) vs 2020
+39% since 1990-91, when it was 609
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 11.0:1
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 | 847 | 69.9 | 12.1:1 | 33% (279) |
| 2023-24 | 805 | 68 | 11.8:1 | 31% (251) |
| 2022-23 | 781 | 71.2 | 11.0:1 | 31% (239) |
| 2020-21 | 740 | 67 | 11.0:1 | 32% (235) |
| 2017-18 | 781 | 64.8 | 12.1:1 | 27% (208) |
| 2015-16 | 775 | 66 | 11.7:1 | 25% (194) |
| 2010-11 | 897 | 73 | 12.3:1 | 16% (140) |
| 2000-01 | 1,030 | 77 | 13.4:1 | 6% (61) |
| 1990-91 | 609 | 48 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
The public middle-grades school VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in VESTAL, New York. It serves 847 students in grades 6 through 8. The average among middle schools in New York is roughly 531 students; this school is 60% larger than that.
VESTAL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL and 6 other schools, with 3,404 students in total.
At 68%, White students outnumber all other groups at VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL combined. After that, the student body is 17% Asian, 5% Black, 5% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Among all residents of Broome County, the White share is about 80%. VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL has a diversity index of 50%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 69.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL was 12.1:1. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 33%. Public schools in Broome County average 52%.
VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 72% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 65.0%, compared with a predicted 62.9%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Broome County this way: median household income is about $62,616, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Federal data list 52 public schools in Broome County, with a combined enrollment of about 24,594.
The school nearest to VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL places 5th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
In the federal locale system, VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 740 to 847. Federal data show the ratio rising from 11.0:1 to 12.1:1.
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Broome County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,378
Census ACS
Median income
$62,616
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
24,594 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VESTAL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- VESTAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,015 students
- VESTAL HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 388 students
- AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 325 students
- GLENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 310 students
- TIOGA HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 269 students
- CLAYTON AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 250 students
Other schools in VESTAL
- VESTAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,015 students
- VESTAL HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 388 students
- AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 325 students
- GLENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 310 students
- CLAYTON AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 250 students
Nearby schools
- AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 325
- VESTAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,015
- CLAYTON AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 250
- UNION-ENDICOTT HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,078
- HOMER BRINK SCHOOL2.1 mi · 731
- GLENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 310
Frequently asked questions
About VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 847 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 12.1:1 (70 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 68% White, 5% Hispanic, 5% Black, 17% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by VESTAL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.