# J WATSON BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361629001434`
- **School name**: J WATSON BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: KINGSTON, NY 12401
- **Address**: 118 MERILINA AVE EXT
- **District**: KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3616290`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.93474, -74.03183
- **Phone**: (845)943-3940

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 936
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 98
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Grad Rate: s
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Core Performance: s
  - HS CCCR: s
  - HS Attendance: s
  - EM Growth: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - HS Weight Performance: s
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM ELP: 2
  - 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 8.5% (90 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.1% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 27.8% (262 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 18
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 26.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 10.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 53.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 48.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.4% — 249 students
- **English Learners**: 8.0% — 75 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 129 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 61 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 32 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- International Baccalaureate (IB)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,687
- **Federal share**: $2,108
- **State + local share**: $32,579
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 943
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $33,363,778
- **Federal share**: 8.4%
- **State share**: 39.6%
- **Local share**: 52.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $20,646,058

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $78,036
- **Poverty rate**: 4.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.6%
- **Unemployment**: 7.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,211
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.7 miles (MOHONK ROAD INDUSTRIAL PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.07 miles (124 126 FRANKLIN STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON (CITY) WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0.88% (this school: 1.17%)
- **ROBERT R GRAVES SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.17%)
- **BULKELEY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 1.17%)
- **RHINEBECK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.17%)
- **CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.17%)

### ela proficiency
- **ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 41% (this school: 39%)
- **E R CROSBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 42% (this school: 39%)
- **ROBERT R GRAVES SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 50% (this school: 39%)
- **BULKELEY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 39%)
- **WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.1 mi away, 42% (this school: 39%)

### math proficiency
- **ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 50.8%)
- **E R CROSBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 65% (this school: 50.8%)
- **ROBERT R GRAVES SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 58% (this school: 50.8%)
- **BULKELEY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 84.6% (this school: 50.8%)
- **MARBLETOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.4 mi away, 61% (this school: 50.8%)

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