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Enrollment
772
Middle
DISTRICT 611 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AMSTERDAM CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360297000071
WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY
55 BRANDT PL, AMSTERDAM, NY 12010 · (518) 843-3716 · Montgomery County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL772 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% 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
12.0:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
580 students
DISTRICT 76% · 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 | 261 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 242 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 268 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY→AMSTERDAM HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within AMSTERDAM 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
27.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
28.5%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 28.5% |
| 2023-24 | 22.0% | 23.5% |
% 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
36.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY
WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY's state test result (36.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY this school | 772 | 75.1% | 36.9% |
| ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL MONTICELLO | 587 | 72.1% | 35.3% |
| MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL MIDDLE VILLAGE | 468 | 74.1% | 73.3% |
| LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBERTY | 516 | 65.1% | 35.1% |
| IS 51 EDWIN MARKHAM STATEN ISLAND | 1,072 | 77.9% | 53.3% |
| YONKERS MIDDLE SCHOOL YONKERS | 540 | 76.5% | 51.3% |
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 WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #644 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #712 of 768 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #716 of 768 ▲ 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 772 | #172 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #552 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.8% | #195 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.1% | #264 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.6% | #412 of 524 |
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
772
-98 (-11%) vs 2020
+36% since 1990-91, when it was 569
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 772 | 64.5 | 12.0:1 | 75% (580) |
| 2023-24 | 773 | 61.5 | 12.6:1 | 70% (540) |
| 2022-23 | 817 | 66 | 12.4:1 | 75% (611) |
| 2020-21 | 870 | 59 | 14.8:1 | 72% (629) |
| 2017-18 | 818 | 66 | 12.4:1 | 70% (571) |
| 2015-16 | 803 | 65 | 12.3:1 | 58% (469) |
| 2010-11 | 839 | 76 | 11.0:1 | 44% (370) |
| 2000-01 | 826 | 73 | 11.3:1 | 30% (244) |
| 1990-91 | 569 | 54 | 10.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY.
About WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY
Families in AMSTERDAM, New York, are served by WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY, a medium-sized middle-grades school. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 772 students. The average among middle schools in New York is roughly 531 students; this school is 45% bigger than that.
AMSTERDAM CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 6 schools with 3,663 students in all.
Hispanic students account for 52% of enrollment at WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY. Other groups make up 35% White, 6% multiracial, and 5% Black. Montgomery County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 60%.
Teachers at the school number 64.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.0:1. Among middle schools in New York, the typical ratio is 10.3:1. The school's lunch program data list 75% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 62% for public schools in Montgomery County.
The allk12 Grade for WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY is D. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 12% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 36.9% and a predicted 47.4%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Montgomery County, median household income is about $64,943, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY is one of 16 public schools in Montgomery County, which together enroll about 7,225 students.
RAPHAEL J MCNULTY ACADEMY FOR INTERN STUDIES & LITERACY is located about 0.2 miles from WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY. Within five miles are 6 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY is 4th of 8 on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Distant: the school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 772, 11% below the 870 of 2020-21. The school's ratio fell from 14.8:1 to 12.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
49,528
Census ACS
Median income
$64,943
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
7,225 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in AMSTERDAM CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- AMSTERDAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,192 students
- RAPHAEL J MCNULTY ACADEMY FOR INTERN STUDIES & LITERACYElementary · 503 students
- WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATIONElementary · 465 students
- MARIE CURIE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND COMMUNICATIONElementary · 446 students
- WILLIAM H BARKLEY MICROSOCIETYElementary · 285 students
Other schools in AMSTERDAM
- AMSTERDAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,192 students
- BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 879 students
- RAPHAEL J MCNULTY ACADEMY FOR INTERN STUDIES & LITERACYElementary · 503 students
- WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATIONElementary · 465 students
- MARIE CURIE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND COMMUNICATIONElementary · 446 students
- WILLIAM H BARKLEY MICROSOCIETYElementary · 285 students
Nearby schools
- RAPHAEL J MCNULTY ACADEMY FOR INTERN STUDIES & LITERACY0.2 mi · 503
- WILLIAM H BARKLEY MICROSOCIETY1.1 mi · 285
- AMSTERDAM HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,192
- MARIE CURIE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND COMMUNICATION1.6 mi · 446
- WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION1.6 mi · 465
- BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.9 mi · 879
Frequently asked questions
About WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMYHow many students attend WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY?
WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 772 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY serve?
WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY is approximately 12.0:1 (65 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY?
At WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 35% White, 52% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY public or private?
WILBUR H LYNCH LITERACY ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by AMSTERDAM CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.