Rye Middle School, Rye NY - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Rye Middle School

Rye Middle School serves grades six through eight in the Rye City School District, occupying a Gothic-style building on Parsons Street that it shares with Rye High School. The school sits in Rye, the smallest city in Westchester County, a compact coastal community on Long Island Sound that functions primarily as a bedroom community for New York City commuters. Metro-North's New Haven Line runs through the center of town, connecting to Grand Central in a manageable commute, and daily life revolves around a walkable Purchase Street downtown, a public library, and an unusually rich set of parks and waterfront open space including Rye Town Park along the Sound.

Academically, the school posts some of the strongest state assessment results in Westchester County. On New York's state tests, proficiency rates across all three grades and across both math and ELA are well above the midpoint among the county's districts, sitting in the top quartile of the comparison set. Math proficiency runs high across sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, and ELA follows a similar pattern, with eighth grade results particularly strong in both subjects. Eighth-grade science proficiency is also high, though the participation rate for that assessment was notably lower than for ELA and math, which a parent may want to ask the school about. Social studies testing data is only available from a much earlier school year and cannot be treated as current. No multi-year trend data was available in the state records, so whether performance has shifted in recent years is not something this profile can speak to.

The student body is moderately sized for a three-grade middle school. The racial and ethnic composition is predominantly white, with Asian and Hispanic students each making up a meaningful share of enrollment, and smaller numbers of students from other backgrounds. Free and reduced-price lunch data was not reported, nor were counts for students with IEPs or English learners, so the data here does not give a full picture of socioeconomic diversity or the range of support services in place. Parents interested in special education programs or services for English learners would want to ask the district directly.

The community context matters for anyone weighing a move. Housing prices in the zip code are substantially above the state median and well above national norms, and rents sit at a level that implies significant housing cost burden relative to typical incomes. The Westchester County market has seen limited inventory alongside continued price appreciation, and Rye specifically has been an active subject of local development debate, with the city recently forming a downtown committee and weighing new construction proposals near the train station corridor. The population has been essentially flat for years after modest earlier growth. None of this affects the school directly, but it shapes who can realistically access this district.

On programs, the data provided does not include course offerings or enrichment programs at the middle school level, so this profile cannot characterize what electives, arts, athletics, or acceleration pathways look like. The district brief search did not return confirmed recent changes to district priorities or programs, so that layer of context was left out rather than guessed at.

For a family whose children are in the sixth-through-eighth-grade window, the academic performance picture here is genuinely strong by statewide comparison. The peer environment is that of a relatively small, largely affluent coastal city with a stable residential character and a high-performing school tradition. The school's setting, shared with the high school on a single secondary campus near downtown, means middle schoolers are part of a physically connected pathway through the Rye City 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
Math	183	99.0%
Science	82	98.0%

Math

Grade 687%

School 87% · District 87%

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 36 pts above county median

Grade 787%

School 87% · District 87%

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 886%

School 86% · District 86%

▲ 49 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 684%

School 84% · District 84%

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

Grade 781%

School 81% · District 81%

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 29 pts above county median

Grade 886%

School 86% · District 86% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Science

Grade 885%

School 85% · District 85% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 52 pts above state median · ▲ 67 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 897%

School 97% · district not reported

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

This schoolRYE 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 8Lower-income50%Higher-income87%37 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 7Lower-income40%Higher-income88%48 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income60%Higher-income87%27 pp gap