Carl I Bergerson Middle School, Albion NY

Original Research by School Decision on Carl I Bergerson Middle School

Carl I. Bergerson Middle School serves sixth through eighth grade in Albion, a small town in Orleans County that hosts the annual Orleans County Fair and is home to a mix of retail, industrial, and service employment. The school sits within Albion Central School District, which has held its property-tax levy flat for many years, including a zero-percent increase proposed again for 2025-26. The district completed a major capital renovation across all three buildings and the bus garage by 2024, adding security improvements, building-systems upgrades, and new synthetic athletic fields.

Bergerson enrolls students across its three grades. About three in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, marking a working-family profile consistent with the economic baseline of the area. The enrollment is majority white, with meaningful representation of Black and Hispanic students. The district does not publish enrollment shares for students with individualized education plans or English learners, so those populations cannot be measured from available data.

State test results point to academic performance that falls below typical middle-school benchmarks and declines as students move up through the grades. In sixth-grade math, around four in ten students meet proficiency. That rises to about half in seventh grade, then to roughly two-thirds by eighth grade, suggesting some students gain ground in mathematics as they mature. English language arts shows a sharper and more concerning pattern: proficiency in sixth grade is around four in ten, drops to just over one-third in seventh grade, then falls further to about one in five by eighth grade. Science proficiency for eighth graders sits around one-third. The only comparison available is an older eighth-grade social studies result, now nearly fifteen years old, which showed much stronger performance. Participation rates in testing are generally solid and above nine in ten across grades and subjects, except for eighth-grade math and science, where they dip somewhat lower.

Within Orleans County districts, Bergerson's overall proficiency index across tested subjects and grades ranks above the midpoint. The school's performance is therefore not the lowest in its county peer set, though no state or national comparison rankings are available. A parent may want to look into what specific supports the district and school are putting in place to address the downward trajectory in English language arts, particularly for seventh and eighth graders.

The school is a regular public middle school with no specialized programs or magnet designations noted. A comprehensive picture of course breadth, extracurricular offerings, staff resources, or attendance data was not available from the sourced information. The locale is served by limited public transportation, and a car is typical for residents.

Housing in the Albion zip code is relatively affordable compared to New York State and national medians, with median home values well below both state and national benchmarks. Mortgage affordability at current rates and income levels in the region positions housing as accessible to middle-income families, which aligns with the student body's economic profile.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

New York Regents Exams

1 course reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Math	14	93.0%

Math

Grade 644%

School 44% · District 44%

even with state median

Grade 754%

School 54% · District 54%

▲ 1 pts above state median

Grade 868%

School 68% · District 67% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 639%

School 39% · District 39%

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 736%

School 36% · District 36%

▼ 11 pts below state median

Grade 822%

School 22% · District 21%

▼ 27 pts below state median

Science

Grade 837%

School 37% · District 36%

▲ 3 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 887%

School 87% · district not reported

▲ 8 pts above state median

This schoolALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income36%Higher-income45%9 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income33%Higher-income40%6 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income16%Higher-income31%15 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income39%Higher-income53%14 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income47%Higher-income64%18 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income63%Higher-income77%14 pp gap