# GOWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361239004858`
- **School name**: GOWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: GOWANDA, NY 14070
- **Address**: 10674 PROSPECT ST
- **District**: GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3612390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.46525, -78.94747
- **Phone**: (716)532-3325

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 334
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 38.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 67.1% (212 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.2% (73 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 15
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 23.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 61.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 9.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.4% — 54 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,737
- **Federal share**: $2,559
- **State + local share**: $27,178
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 329
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $38,884,542
- **Federal share**: 17.5%
- **State share**: 67.4%
- **Local share**: 15.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $18,291,985

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $58,258
- **Poverty rate**: 15.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $826
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.3 miles (LITTLE VALLEY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.24 miles (FORMER MEMORIAL DRIVE HOSPITAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GOWANDA VILLAGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 12
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.5431 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 19.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 41% (this school: 31%)
- **NORTH COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 9.1 mi away, 45% (this school: 31%)
- **FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 11.7 mi away, 53% (this school: 31%)
- **FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 11.9 mi away, 50% (this school: 31%)
- **EDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 13.8 mi away, 50% (this school: 31%)

### math proficiency
- **NORTH COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 9.1 mi away, 62.5% (this school: 54%)
- **FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 11.7 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 54%)
- **FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 11.9 mi away, 74% (this school: 54%)
- **EDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 13.8 mi away, 62% (this school: 54%)
- **EDEN MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL** — 14.1 mi away, 80.33% (this school: 54%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/gowanda-middle-school-gowanda/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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