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What's one thing WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
884
Middle
DISTRICT 775 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WASHINGTONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363003004039
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
38 W MAIN ST, WASHINGTONVILLE, NY 10992 · (845) 497-4000 · Orange County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL884 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% 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.
- CBeats 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
11.2:1
79 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
354 students
DISTRICT 38% · 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 | 259 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 305 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 315 | 36% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL→WASHINGTONVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within WASHINGTONVILLE 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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
55.8%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 55.8% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 49.2% |
% 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
52.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (52.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 884 | 40.0% | 52.3% |
| VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MONTGOMERY | 945 | 39.9% | 61.1% |
| WAPPINGERS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 764 | 39.4% | 55.9% |
| SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL HOLTSVILLE | 893 | 37.7% | 58.5% |
| LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL LAGRANGEVILLE | 817 | 46.3% | 39.8% |
| J WATSON BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL KINGSTON | 936 | 45.6% | 45.4% |
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 WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #383 of 766 | #12 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.8% | #427 of 768 ▲ 54 | #12 of 16 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #508 of 768 ▲ 51 | #12 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 884 | #115 of 796 | #5 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #466 of 683 | #12 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #145 of 688 | #4 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.0% | #526 of 773 | #10 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.5% | #333 of 524 | #6 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
884
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 890
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 884 | 78.9 | 11.2:1 | 40% (354) |
| 2023-24 | 902 | 77.6 | 11.6:1 | 40% (361) |
| 2022-23 | 900 | 77.1 | 11.7:1 | 35% (312) |
| 2020-21 | 890 | 71 | 12.5:1 | 31% (274) |
| 2017-18 | 977 | 74 | 13.2:1 | 24% (235) |
| 2015-16 | 1,038 | 73 | 14.2:1 | 23% (238) |
| 2010-11 | 1,061 | 78 | 13.6:1 | 21% (220) |
| 2000-01 | 1,234 | 81 | 15.2:1 | 8% (103) |
| 1990-91 | 890 | 69 | 12.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
This page covers WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, a large middle school in WASHINGTONVILLE, New York. Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 884 students. The average for middle schools in New York is about 531 students, so this school is 66% bigger than average.
WASHINGTONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 3,874 students, and its 5 schools include WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 48%. Smaller groups are 35% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. County-wide, 62% of Orange County residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
A ratio of 11.2:1 comes from the school's 78.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 40% in 2024-25.
Measured against New York public middle schools, WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (52.3%) and its predicted rate (60.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in Orange County, where median household income is about $97,178, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 82 public schools in Orange County, with a combined enrollment of about 57,122.
The closest public school, WASHINGTONVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles from WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Around the school, 3 other public schools are within five miles. WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL places 3rd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
For locale, NCES codes WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment went from 890 in 2020-21 to 884 in 2024-25, a change of 6 students. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.5:1 in 2020-21 to 11.2:1 in 2024-25.
Questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 WASHINGTONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WASHINGTONVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,308 students
- ROUND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 718 students
- TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 522 students
- LITTLE BRITAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 442 students
Other schools in WASHINGTONVILLE
- WASHINGTONVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,308 students
- ROUND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 718 students
- TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 522 students
Nearby schools
- WASHINGTONVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,308
- TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 522
- ROUND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 718
- LITTLE BRITAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.1 mi · 442
- CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL5.2 mi · 1,010
- KIRYAS JOEL VILLAGE SCHOOL6.2 mi · 152
Frequently asked questions
About WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 884 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 79 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
How diverse is WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 48% White, 35% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by WASHINGTONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.