# GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362667003635`
- **School name**: GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: CLIFTON PARK, NY 12065
- **Address**: 970 RT 146
- **District**: SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3626670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.86598, -73.80779
- **Phone**: (518)881-0460

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 764
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 58
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 15.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 3
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (6 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.1% (90 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 10
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.3%
- **Black/African American**: 7.0%
- **Asian**: 3.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 78.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 13.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 77 students
- **English Learners**: 0.7% — 5 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 38 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 29 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,551
- **Federal share**: $1,150
- **State + local share**: $20,402
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 745
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,034,977
- **Federal share**: 10.7%
- **State share**: 29.6%
- **Local share**: 59.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,082,596

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $132,396
- **Poverty rate**: 2.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 62.8%
- **Unemployment**: 1.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,416
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.2 miles (MALTA ROCKET FUEL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.39 miles (BIG N RETAIL MAXON REALTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CLIFTON PARK WATER AUTHORITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.47193 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### math proficiency
- **TESAGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 89.67%)

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