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Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Business First's rankings of area school continue with the middle schools. There's no change at the top of the list.
Transit Middle School is number one for the fourth straight year. Business First cites Transit as being the only school in the eight-county region where more than 50 percent of seventh graders and eighth graders earned superior scores on their statewide math tests in 2011. It's also the only school where more than 10 percent of all students in seventh and eighth grades received superior marks on last year's statewide English tests.
This year's runner-up is City Honors School, which occupied the same position in 2011. City Honors, which extends from fifth through 12th grade, is both a middle school and a high school. Its students are confronted with an accelerated curriculum. Fifth graders, for example, are expected to work at a sixth grade level, according to Thomas.
The top private school is fourth overall, St. Peter School of Lewiston. "It's fourth overall, and it has only 150 students from kindergarten through 8th grade. It's certainly not your typical middle school with an average of 15 students per grade level," explains Thomas.
Here is the full list from Business First:
1. Transit MS (Williamsville)
2. City Honors School (Buffalo)
3. Casey MS (Williamsville)
4. St. Peter School (Lewiston-Porter)
5. St. Gregory the Great School (Williamsville)
6. St. Mark's School (Buffalo)
7. Heim MS (Williamsville)
8. St. Christopher's School (Sweet Home)
9. Kadimah School of Buffalo (Amherst)
10. Mill MS (Williamsville)
11. Christ the King School (Amherst)
12. Amherst MS (Amherst)
13. Stella Niagara Education Park (Lewiston-Porter)
14. East Aurora MS (East Aurora)
15. St. John Vianney School (Orchard Park)
16. Christian Central Academy (Williamsville)
17. St. John the Baptist School (Alden)
18. Clarence MS (Clarence)
19. Nardin Academy ES (Buffalo)
20. St. John the Baptist School (Kenmore-Tonawanda)
21. Queen of Heaven School (West Seneca)
22. Orchard Park MS (Orchard Park)
23. St. Mary's School (Williamsville)
24. St. John Lutheran School (Niagara-Wheatfield)
25. St. Mary's of the Lake School (Frontier)
26. Holland MS (Holland)
27. Alden MS (Alden)
28. St. Mary's ES (Lancaster)
29. Veronica E. Connor MS (Grand Island)
30. Iroquois MS (Iroquois)
31. St. Leo the Great School (Sweet Home)
32. St. Stephen School (Grand Island)
33. Frontier MS (Frontier)
34. Immaculate Conception School (East Aurora)
35. Chautauqua Lake Secondary School (Chautauqua Lake)
36. East MS (West Seneca)
37. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament School (Lancaster)
38. St. Peter & Paul School (Hamburg)
39. St. Aloysius Regional School (Springville-Griffith Institute)
40. St. Joseph School (Batavia)
41. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary School (Clarence)
42. Holy Ghost Lutheran School (Niagara-Wheatfield)
43. St. Peter & Paul School (Williamsville)
44. Hamburg MS (Hamburg)
45. Southern Tier Catholic School (Olean)
46. DeSales Catholic ES (Lockport)
47. St. Francis of Assisi School (Tonawanda)
48. Maple Grove JSHS (Bemus Point)
49. Lancaster MS (Lancaster)
50. Southwestern MS (Southwestern)
51. Our Lady of Pompeii School (Lancaster)
52. Catholic Academy of the Holy Family (Jamestown)
53. Wyoming Central School (Wyoming)
54. Akron MS (Akron)
55. Lewiston-Porter MS (Lewiston-Porter)
56. Alfred-Almond JSHS (Alfred-Almond)
57. Starpoint MS (Starpoint)
58. Griffith Institute MS (Springville-Griffith Institute)
59. St. Benedict's School (Amherst)
60. Barker MHS (Barker)
61. Immaculate Conception School (Wellsville)
62. West MS (West Seneca)
63. Tonawanda MHS (Tonawanda)
64. St. Amelia School (Kenmore-Tonawanda)
65. Cuba-Rushford MS (Cuba-Rushford)
66. Lake Shore Central MS (Evans-Brant)
67. Our Lady of Victory School (Lackawanna)
68. Sherman MHS (Sherman)
69. Edward Town MS (Niagara-Wheatfield)
70. St. Bernadette School (Orchard Park)
71. Kenmore MS (Kenmore-Tonawanda)
72. Newfane MS (Newfane)
73. St. Dominic Savio MS (Niagara Falls)
74. Herbert Hoover MS (Kenmore-Tonawanda)
75. Pembroke JSHS (Pembroke)
76. Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary School (Iroquois)
77. St. Andrew's Country Day School (Kenmore-Tonawanda)
78. Ellicottville MHS (Ellicottville)
79. Nativity of Our Lord School (Orchard Park)
80. Fillmore Central School (Fillmore)
81. North Collins JSHS (North Collins)
82. Clymer Central School (Clymer)
83. Cleveland Hill MS (Cleveland Hill)
84. L.A. Webber MHS (Lyndonville)
85. Carl I. Bergerson MS (Albion)
86. Sweet Home MS (Sweet Home)
87. Holy Family School (LeRoy)
88. Southtowns Catholic School (Frontier)
89. Fourteen Holy Helpers School (West Seneca)
90. Pine Valley Central JSHS (Pine Valley)
91. Westfield MS (Westfield)
92. Depew MS (Depew)
93. Byron-Bergen MS (Byron-Bergen)
94. Allegany-Limestone MS (Allegany-Limestone)
95. Maryvale MS (Cheektowaga-Maryvale)
96. Elba JSHS (Elba)
97. West Valley Central School (West Valley)
98. Alexander MHS (Alexander)
99. Oakfield-Alabama MHS (Oakfield-Alabama)
100. Whitesville Central School (Whitesville)
ABBREVIATIONS: CS-Charter School, EMS-Elementary-Middle School,
ES-Elementary School, HS-High School, IS-Intermediate School, JHS-Junior
High School, JSHS-Junior-Senior High School, MHS-Middle-High School,
MS-Middle School, PS-Primary School, SHS-Senior High School, VHS-Vocational
High School.