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What's the most underrated thing about WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
542
Middle
DISTRICT 504 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360487000234
WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL
W MIDDLE AVE, BINGHAMTON, NY 13905 · (607) 763-8401 · Broome County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL542 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of New York public middle schools
- C-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
8.7:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.3:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
368 students
DISTRICT 73% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 3% |
| Grade 6 | 195 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 180 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 142 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 1% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL→BINGHAMTON HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within BINGHAMTON CITY 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
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
100.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +61.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 100 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 61 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 100.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
40.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL
WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (40.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 542 | 67.9% | 40.7% |
| LASALLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL NIAGARA FALLS | 539 | 71.8% | 50.1% |
| KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL TROY | 474 | 63.9% | 40.8% |
| TROY MIDDLE SCHOOL TROY | 733 | 71.4% | 52.0% |
| EAST IRONDEQUOIT MIDDLE SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 636 | 65.1% | 49.8% |
| COHOES MIDDLE SCHOOL COHOES | 427 | 70.0% | 51.1% |
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 WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Broome County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.7% | #599 of 766 | #8 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 100% | #9 of 768 ▲ 612 | #1 of 10 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #577 of 768 ▲ 66 | #8 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 542 | #329 of 796 | #4 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.7:1 | #84 of 683 | #2 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.2% | #83 of 688 | #3 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.9% | #303 of 773 | #3 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.5% | #227 of 524 | 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
542
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 670
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
was 8.2:1
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 | 542 | 62.5 | 8.7:1 | 68% (368) |
| 2023-24 | 502 | 60.1 | 8.3:1 | 63% (316) |
| 2022-23 | 506 | 57.7 | 8.8:1 | 68% (343) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 67 | 8.2:1 | 71% (385) |
| 2017-18 | 634 | 61 | 10.4:1 | 71% (448) |
| 2015-16 | 600 | 57 | 10.5:1 | 63% (376) |
| 2010-11 | 692 | 63 | 11.0:1 | 58% (402) |
| 2000-01 | 753 | 58 | 13.0:1 | 51% (381) |
| 1990-91 | 670 | 54 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL
WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the name of a medium-sized middle school in BINGHAMTON, New York. A federal count lists 542 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8.
The 10 schools in BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT enroll 4,531 students altogether, WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 46%. After that, the student body is 28% Black, 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Broome County, the White share is about 80%. WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL has a diversity index of 68%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 8.7:1, with 62.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among middle schools in New York, the typical ratio is 10.3:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is 68%. The rate at public schools in Broome County averages 52%, lower than here.
Measured against New York public middle schools, WEST 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.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 50.0%. WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 40.7%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Broome County show that median household income is about $62,616, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 52 public schools in Broome County, which together enroll about 24,594 students.
THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 40.1% on proficiency, and WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is above that at 40.7%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school's size has been steady, with 546 students in 2020-21 and 542 in 2024-25.
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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 BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BINGHAMTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,262 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 465 students
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 403 students
- MACARTHUR SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- WOODROW WILSON SCHOOLElementary · 355 students
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOOLElementary · 352 students
Other schools in BINGHAMTON
- BINGHAMTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,262 students
- BROOME-DELAWARE-TIOGA BOCESCombined · 1,055 students
- CHENANGO FORKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 605 students
- CHENANGO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 507 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 465 students
- PORT DICKINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
Other West Middle schools
21 other US public schools in 13 states are named West Middle. WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 13th largest of the 22.
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLBAY SHORE, NY · 906 students
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLWEST SENECA, NY · 778 students
- West Middle SchoolTRAVERSE CITY, MI · 1,081 students
- West Middle SchoolGREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO · 1,019 students
- West Middle SchoolSioux City, IA · 826 students
Nearby schools
- THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL0.4 mi · 267
- HORACE MANN SCHOOL0.4 mi · 205
- BINGHAMTON HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,262
- WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL1.0 mi · 355
- MACARTHUR SCHOOL1.3 mi · 399
- VESTAL HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 388
Frequently asked questions
About WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 542 students in grades 06-08.
Is WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 8.7:1 students per teacher at WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 46% White, 13% Hispanic, 28% Black, 3% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Broome County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.