# LANCASTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361668001482`
- **School name**: LANCASTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: LANCASTER, NY 14086
- **Address**: 148 AURORA ST
- **District**: LANCASTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3616680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.89580, -78.67460
- **Phone**: (716)686-3220

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 876
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 69
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 26.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Grad Rate: s
  - HS Core Performance: s
  - HS CCCR: s
  - HS Attendance: s
  - EM Growth: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - HS Weight Performance: s
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - 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 14.7% (123 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 13.4% (114 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 9
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 89.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 25.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.4% — 139 students
- **English Learners**: 0.2% — 2 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 76 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 46 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,974
- **Federal share**: $876
- **State + local share**: $20,098
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 849
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,111,723
- **Federal share**: 9.6%
- **State share**: 38.5%
- **Local share**: 51.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,559,530

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,397
- **Poverty rate**: 3.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.7%
- **Unemployment**: 0.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $920
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.7 miles (EIGHTEENMILE CREEK)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 42
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.02 miles (LOVEJOY STREET SITE 1)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.38319 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 46% (this school: 42%)
- **COURT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 54% (this school: 42%)
- **WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 50% (this school: 42%)
- **JOHN A SCIOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 59% (this school: 42%)
- **HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 56% (this school: 42%)

### math proficiency
- **SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 81% (this school: 76%)
- **LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 76%)
- **COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.5 mi away, 87% (this school: 76%)
- **FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.6 mi away, 79% (this school: 76%)
- **SMALLWOOD DRIVE SCHOOL** — 7.2 mi away, 79% (this school: 76%)

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