Johnson City Middle School, Johnson City NY

Original Research by School Decision on Johnson City Middle School

Johnson City Middle School serves students in grades six through eight in a mid-sized school community within Johnson City Central School District, an area anchored by Binghamton University's Health Sciences Campus and undergoing active revitalization. The school sits within Johnson City itself, a village focused on health care employment and pedestrian-oriented downtown life, rather than on an isolated campus.

The state testing picture shows low proficiency across subjects. In math, fewer than half the students tested at the school met proficiency in any grade, with sixth graders posting roughly a third, seventh graders around two-fifths, and eighth graders dropping to roughly one-tenth. English language arts results follow a similar pattern: sixth graders around a quarter, seventh graders around a third, and eighth graders around a quarter met proficiency. Eighth-grade science proficiency was even lower, with roughly one in six students meeting the bar. The school's overall proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades places it in the bottom quartile when compared to the other districts in Broome County. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly around what interventions are in place and what progress looks like across successive cohorts.

The student body reflects the village's character. Just over three-fifths of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, roughly an average rural-suburban share. The race-ethnicity composition is diverse by regional standards: roughly half the enrollment is white, with meaningful representation among Asian, Black, Hispanic, and multiracial students. Data on English learners and students with disabilities was not available.

The broader district context matters for how the school sits within its system. Johnson City Central School District recently passed a major capital facilities referendum, Revitalize 2025, approved in August 2024, that will fund repairs, building-systems upgrades, program-space changes, and safety and security improvements concentrated at the high school over several years. The district has also held property tax increases well below the state cap for years, keeping a lid on household burden while funding operations. More significant than budget talk, though, is a shift in educational philosophy the district announced through its 2024-2027 Professional Learning Plan. Facing a steep decline in college enrollment among recent graduates, the district is reorienting away from its historical college-preparatory model toward career readiness and job preparation. This pedagogy change reaches back to the middle school years and signals what kinds of pathways and skill emphasis students encounter as they move through the system.

Johnson City itself is a revitalizing community. The village occupies a walkable, mixed-use downtown built around a historic Main Street, anchored by new university health sciences programs and two substantial housing projects coming online or under construction. This is not a school in decline or isolation, but one in a place that has economic anchor institutions and families moving in.

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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	28	89.0%
Math	24	83.0%

Math

Grade 40%

School 0% · District 30% · ▼ 30 pts below district

▼ 58 pts below state median · ▼ 43 pts below county median

Grade 634%

School 34% · District 34%

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 741%

School 41% · District 40% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 810%

School 10% · District 10%

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 40%

School 0% · District 32% · ▼ 32 pts below district

▼ 53 pts below state median · ▼ 45 pts below county median

Grade 626%

School 26% · District 26%

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

Grade 731%

School 31% · District 30% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 826%

School 26% · District 25% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Science

Grade 816%

School 16% · District 15% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 882%

School 82% · district not reported

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

This schoolJOHNSON CITY 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-income22%Higher-income34%12 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income21%Higher-income57%36 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income24%Higher-income31%7 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income28%Higher-income46%19 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income30%Higher-income67%38 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income9%Higher-income18%10 pp gap