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What's one thing WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,069
Middle
DISTRICT 908 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362997004035
WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
225 WEST ST, WARWICK, NY 10990 · (845) 987-3000 · Orange County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL1,069 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% 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.
- 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
11.8:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
223 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 | 250 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 264 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 274 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 277 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
Student demographics
47%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL→WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within WARWICK VALLEY 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
54.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
73.7%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 54 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 73.7% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 72.9% |
% 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
63.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (63.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,069 | 20.9% | 63.2% |
| HOMMOCKS SCHOOL LARCHMONT | 1,284 | 18.9% | 81.3% |
| VAN WYCK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 878 | 26.0% | 61.2% |
| SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL ROCKVILLE CENTRE | 806 | 16.6% | 68.0% |
| BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL PENFIELD | 1,094 | 23.8% | 73.3% |
| UNION VALE MIDDLE SCHOOL LAGRANGEVILLE | 990 | 28.1% | 53.1% |
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 WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #216 of 766 | #3 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.7% | #242 of 768 ▲ 3 | #4 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #289 of 768 ▼ 9 | #5 of 16 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,069 | #63 of 796 | #2 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #541 of 683 | #16 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.1% | #387 of 688 | #16 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.9% | #694 of 773 | #16 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.2% | #504 of 524 | #12 of 12 |
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
1,069
+35 (+3%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 1,122
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 1,069 | 90.2 | 11.8:1 | 21% (223) |
| 2023-24 | 1,071 | 92.2 | 11.6:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 1,082 | 87.3 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 1,034 | 84 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,082 | 84 | 12.9:1 | 18% (192) |
| 2015-16 | 1,054 | 85 | 12.4:1 | 14% (144) |
| 2010-11 | 1,017 | 71 | 14.3:1 | 12% (122) |
| 2000-01 | 1,103 | 72 | 15.3:1 | 9% (94) |
| 1990-91 | 1,122 | 75 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students in WARWICK, New York, as a high-enrollment middle school. It offers grades 5 through 8 and has 1,069 students enrolled. It has 101% more students than the average for middle schools in New York (about 531).
The 4 schools of WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, including WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, enroll 3,630 students.
About 70% of the student body at WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is White. Other groups make up 18% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. County-wide, 62% of Orange County residents are White. A diversity index of 47% means there is a 47% chance two randomly chosen students at WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
Teacher count: 90.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 11.8:1. The gap from the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is 1.6 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 21%. The average for public schools in Orange County is 44%.
On the allk12 Grade, WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at B, ahead of 59% of New York public middle schools.
WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 63.2%, compared with a predicted 67.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Orange County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $97,178 a year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, Orange County has 82 public schools.
WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is behind the 64.2% nearby average, ranking 6th of 9.
For locale, NCES codes WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL as Town: Fringe.
The school's enrollment rose 3% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,314 students
- SANFORDVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 791 students
- PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 456 students
Other schools in WARWICK
- WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,314 students
- SANFORDVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 791 students
- PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 456 students
Nearby schools
- WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,314
- SANFORDVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 791
- PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 456
- Upper Greenwood Lake Elementary School4.8 mi · 250
- GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.2 mi · 191
- Vernon Township High School5.4 mi · 906
Frequently asked questions
About WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,069 students in grades 05-08.
Is WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 11.8:1 (90 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 70% White, 18% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Orange County.
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