Public school / Middle
Donald S Ray School
Baldwinsville, New York
- NCES ID
- 360387000141
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Donald S Ray School is a public middle school in Baldwinsville, New York, run by Baldwinsville Central School District. It enrols 846 students — the 12475th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
846
Teachers
62.0
Students per teacher
13.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
31.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Baldwinsville Central School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Charles W Baker High School1,281 students
- 2Donald S Ray School846 students
- 3Theodore R Durgee Junior High School834 students
- 4Catherine M Mcnamara Elementary School528 students
- 5Mae E Reynolds School503 students
- 6Van Buren Elementary School503 students
- 7Harry E Elden Elementary School479 students
- 8L Pearl Palmer Elementary School470 students
- Enrollment+86.8%
- Teachers+67.6%
- Students per teacher+18.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−46.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory