# GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360657000439`
- **School name**: GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: CARMEL, NY 10512
- **Address**: 281 FAIR ST
- **District**: CARMEL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3606570`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.44004, -73.65297
- **Phone**: (845)228-2300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,138
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 100
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Additional Targeted Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Growth: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - overall_status: Additional Targeted Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 38.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.8% (105 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.2% (127 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 29
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.7%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 3.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 59.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.0% — 194 students
- **English Learners**: 2.4% — 27 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 84 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 63 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,364
- **Federal share**: $878
- **State + local share**: $34,486
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,139
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $37,583,703
- **Federal share**: 8.1%
- **State share**: 26.5%
- **Local share**: 65.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $21,360,146

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $113,301
- **Poverty rate**: 3.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 54.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,112
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.5 miles (ARSENIC MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 10.25 miles (MALLORY HAT FACTORY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WILDFLOWER HILLS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.70556 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **C V STARR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **HENRY H WELLS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)

### ela proficiency
- **KENT PRIMARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 51% (this school: 41%)
- **LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 48% (this school: 41%)
- **PEQUENAKONCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.2 mi away, 61% (this school: 41%)
- **MAHOPAC MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.3 mi away, 51% (this school: 41%)
- **SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 8.2 mi away, 58% (this school: 41%)

### math proficiency
- **MAHOPAC MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.3 mi away, 73.2% (this school: 63.6%)
- **SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 8.2 mi away, 81.67% (this school: 63.6%)
- **SOMERS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 63.6%)
- **INCREASE MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 10.1 mi away, 88% (this school: 63.6%)
- **GAYHEAD SCHOOL** — 11.8 mi away, 73% (this school: 63.6%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/george-fischer-middle-school-carmel/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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