Geneva Middle School, Geneva NY - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Geneva Middle School

Geneva Middle School serves grades six through eight in a mid-sized student body drawn from the Geneva City School District in Ontario County. The school sits in a small Finger Lakes city anchored by healthcare, manufacturing, and education, with a walkable downtown and a broader community rooted in both working-class tradition and tourism around Seneca Lake.

The student population is economically and racially mixed. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. White and Hispanic students each make up a meaningful portion of enrollment, with smaller representation from Black students and multiracial students, and very few Asian students and no reported Native American or Pacific Islander students.

In state testing across 2024-25, the school's academic performance shows consistent strain across both math and English language arts. In math, proficiency rates run in the low-to-mid range across all three grades, with the seventh grade showing the highest performance and eighth grade the lowest. English language arts proficiency is somewhat stronger, with seventh and eighth grade performing noticeably better than sixth grade. Science proficiency at the eighth grade is comparably low. Across all tested areas, student participation rates are generally strong, though eighth-grade science shows notably lower participation. A parent may want to look into that further with the school.

Relative to districts in Ontario County, Geneva Middle School's overall proficiency index sits in the bottom quartile, meaning its tested students are achieving at rates below the median and most peers in the county.

The school operates within Geneva City School District, which recently passed a substantial capital improvement referendum in February 2025 with overwhelming voter support. The project funds security, safety, and facility upgrades across all four district schools with no additional tax impact on residents. Construction is scheduled to run from April 2026 through August 2027. District leadership has also moved toward what it describes as a unified, district-wide approach to teaching and learning intended to align instruction across schools and expand access to opportunity. That framework applies to Geneva Middle School as part of the broader system.

At the community level, housing values in the Geneva area are moderate, with the median home price and rent both positioning the area as more affordable than state and national benchmarks. The largest employers are healthcare anchored by Geneva General Hospital, along with manufacturing operations and educational institutions. The city itself is experiencing significant housing development focused on affordable and supportive units, a dynamic that is reshaping the area's demographics and economic character. Public schools serve families moving into these new developments.

For a family considering Geneva Middle School, the key questions are whether the school's current academic performance and the district's unified instructional approach will move proficiency upward, and whether the capital improvements and facility upgrades will create a stronger learning environment. The school operates in a real community with real economic constraints and substantial recent change. Strong participation in testing suggests engagement, and seventh-grade English language arts performance hints that students can reach higher proficiency. Whether the district's systemic shifts translate to measurable gains in the near term is something a parent would want to explore directly with the school and district.

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Academic performance

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

New York Regents Exams

2 courses 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
Science	43	77.0%
Math	36	94.0%

Math

Grade 630%

School 30% · District 29% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 737%

School 37% · District 36% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 825%

School 25% · District 25% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 36% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 744%

School 44% · District 43% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 840%

School 40% · District 39% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Science

Grade 826%

School 26% · District 27%

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 864%

School 64% · district not reported

▼ 14 pts below state median

This schoolGENEVA CITY 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-income24%Higher-income56%31 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income37%Higher-income63%26 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income29%Higher-income58%28 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income14%Higher-income53%39 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income29%Higher-income58%30 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income24%Higher-income28%4 pp gap