Dalton-nunda Middle School, Nunda NY

Original Research by School Decision on Dalton-nunda Middle School

Dalton-Nunda Middle School serves grades five through eight in the small, historic village of Nunda in southern Livingston County. The school draws from a compact community built around a walkable village square with scattered historic commercial blocks, surrounded by countryside where residential lots tend to be large and neighbors often live miles apart. The school itself is part of the Dalton-Nunda Central School District, which recently approved a major capital project to upgrade instructional spaces and add a Science and Technology Commons and new library media center, funded through state aid and existing reserves with no new tax burden.

The school is small, enrolling roughly one hundred fifty students across its grade span. About two in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white; Hispanic students comprise a small share of enrollment, with essentially no Black, Asian, or multiracial students represented in the data. Information on English learners and students with IEPs was not available.

State testing results from the most recent year show proficiency rates that fall below the midpoint among Livingston County districts. In math, proficiency ranges from the low twenties in grade five to the mid-forties in grades six and eight, with grade seven notably lower. English language arts performance is somewhat stronger, particularly in grades six and eight, where about half of students reach proficiency; grades five and seven are notably weaker. In science, grade five proficiency is in the low thirties, rising to the mid-forties in grade eight. These results suggest most students are working below grade-level standards in the core subjects, and parents may want to look into the school's literacy and numeracy support systems with staff to understand how below-proficiency students are being addressed.

The district has invested in modernizing facilities and learning spaces in recent years, and the capital project now underway will introduce new laboratory and library resources. The community setting is rural and historically rooted, with the village near Letchworth State Park and on access routes to the Genesee Valley Greenway. Housing costs are below state and national medians, and the area has experienced long-term population decline, suggesting a stable but not growing residential market. This is a setting suited to families drawn to rural living, tight community bonds, and land and space rather than urban amenities or rapid development. The school's academic profile reflects a rural small-town setting with modest test proficiency; families considering this school should weigh the community's character and the district's facility improvements against the need for strong core academic supports.

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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	8	100.0%

Math

Grade 523%

School 23% · District 23%

▼ 28 pts below state median

Grade 644%

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

even with state median

Grade 729%

School 29% · District 29%

▼ 24 pts below state median

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 45%

▲ 8 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 28%

▼ 27 pts below state median

Grade 649%

School 49% · District 47% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median

Grade 735%

School 35% · District 35%

▼ 13 pts below state median

Grade 839%

School 39% · District 39%

▼ 10 pts below state median

Science

Grade 532%

School 32% · District 32%

▼ 10 pts below state median

Grade 844%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 10 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 883%

School 83% · district not reported

▲ 5 pts above state median

This schoolDALTON-NUNDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (KESHEQUA), 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 4Lower-income21%Higher-income20%1 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income26%Higher-income29%2 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income38%Higher-income58%20 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income31%Higher-income39%8 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income19%Higher-income61%42 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income32%Higher-income45%13 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income16%Higher-income30%14 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income31%Higher-income55%24 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income25%Higher-income33%8 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income26%Higher-income75%49 pp gap