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WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 98 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 are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL
WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a sizable middle school in WEBSTER, New York, overseen by WEBSTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 928 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 75% larger than the state mean of about 531.
Within WEBSTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 11 schools and 7,940 students, WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL has 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Monroe County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.4%; this one delivers 71.5%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Monroe County put the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).
THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 62.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 956 students in 2018 compared to 928 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.
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