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Public school / Middle

Gowana Middle School

Clifton Park, New York

NCES ID
362667003635
District
Shenendehowa Central School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Gowana Middle School is a public middle school in Clifton Park, New York, run by Shenendehowa Central School District. It enrols 773 students — the 15461st largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.

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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

773students

15461st nationally, tied with 36

Teachers

58.0FTE

10590th nationally, tied with 474

Students per teacher

13.3students

31139th nationally, tied with 915

Free or reduced-price lunch

14.7%percent

80534th nationally, tied with 57

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.

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Within Shenendehowa 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Shenendehowa High School3,036 students
  2. 2Gowana Middle School773 students
  3. 3Koda Middle School751 students
  4. 4Acadia Middle School744 students
  5. 5Arongen Elementary School601 students
  6. 6Skano Elementary School543 students
  7. 7Orenda Elementary School537 students
  8. 8Okte Elementary School535 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New York median across 4,847 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+70.6%
  • Teachers+56.8%
  • Students per teacher+15.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−74.8%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.