Slade Middle School

Summary:

Slade Middle School is a public middle school in New Britain, Connecticut, serving 795 students in grades 6-8. The school is part of the New Britain School District, which is ranked 158 out of 158 districts in the state and has a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Slade Middle School consistently ranks among the lowest-performing middle schools in Connecticut, with only 12-17.2% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts and 3.6-6.4% proficient in mathematics, compared to state averages of 48.1-49.5% and 38.2-41.5%, respectively. The school's performance is particularly concerning for certain student subgroups, such as females, males, and Hispanic students, who rank among the bottom 5-10% of Connecticut middle schools. Additionally, the school's performance for English Language Learners and students with disabilities is also among the lowest in the state.

When compared to nearby schools, the performance gap is quite significant. For example, the nearby House of Arts Letters and Science (HALS) Academy, which is also part of the New Britain School District, consistently outperforms Slade Middle School by a wide margin, with proficiency rates in the 80-90% range for both English Language Arts and Mathematics.


Detail:

Public 6-8

 183 Steele St.
       New Britain, CT  06052


(860) 225-6395

District: New Britain School District

SchoolDigger Rank:
244th of 250 Connecticut Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $21,576 Help


Students who attend Slade Middle School usually attend:

High:    New Britain High School

Feeder schools for Slade Middle School:

Elementary:    Gaffney Elementary School
    Lincoln Elementary School
    Vance Elementary School

Student/teacher ratio:  11.7 Help
Number of students:  795

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
70.3%
African American:
11.9%
White:
11.1%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  76.7% Help


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Compare Details Slade Middle School ranks worse than 97.6% of middle schools in Connecticut. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 5.58. (See more...)
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Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Slade Middle School is $21,576.
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Slade Middle School:

SchoolDigger ranks Slade Middle School 244th of 250 Connecticut public middle schools. (See Slade Middle School in the ranking list.)

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New Britain School District:

SchoolDigger ranks New Britain School District 158th of 158 Connecticut school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Slade Middle School

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Rank History for all students at Slade Middle School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CT State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2006 8.44 218th 248 12.1%
2007 6.73 219th 250 12.4%
2008 7.75 223rd 252 11.5%
2009 8.92 228th 255 10.6%
2010 8.81 239th 268 10.8%
2011 4.40 253rd 269 5.9%
2012 3.49 258th 272 5.1%
2013 8.83 247th 278 11.2%
2015 7.13 263rd 280 6.1%
2016 3.40 242nd 246 1.6%
2017 3.81 242nd 250 3.2%
2018 4.33 242nd 249 2.8%
2019 3.00 256th 259 1.2%
2021 5.27 267th 275 2.9%
2022 4.50 245th 250 2.0%
2023 4.89 242nd 249 2.8%
2024 5.58 244th 250 2.4%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Slade Middle School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CT State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 8.49 8th 16 50.0%
2019 38.31 5th 15 66.7%
2021 29.01 32nd 34 5.9%
2022 18.85 19th 26 26.9%
2024 19.34 5th 5 0.0%
See the entire list of Best Connecticut Middle Schools for English Language Learner Students!

Rank History for Special Education students at Slade Middle School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CT State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2019 18.83 22nd 25 12.0%
2021 6.21 238th 244 2.5%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Slade Middle School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CT State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 7.18 213th 218 2.3%
2022 5.99 106th 106 0.0%
2023 5.44 108th 109 0.9%
2024 5.80 114th 114 0.0%
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Rank History for Female students at Slade Middle School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CT State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 2.07 158th 160 1.3%
2019 0.93 167th 169 1.2%
2021 4.46 226th 235 3.8%
2022 2.05 166th 166 0.0%
2023 2.30 159th 160 0.6%
2024 3.40 159th 161 1.2%
See the entire list of Best Connecticut Middle Schools for Female Students!

Rank History for Disabled students at Slade Middle School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CT State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 14.73 101st 104 2.9%
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Rank History for Male students at Slade Middle School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CT State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 3.72 162nd 164 1.2%
2019 1.94 167th 167 0.0%
2021 4.41 218th 224 2.7%
2022 2.75 169th 169 0.0%
2023 2.17 157th 158 0.6%
2024 2.69 156th 157 0.6%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Slade Middle School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CT State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 11.85 72nd 75 4.0%
2019 9.21 96th 97 1.0%
2021 8.81 142nd 146 2.7%
2022 5.79 96th 97 1.0%
2023 10.59 97th 99 2.0%
2024 11.06 99th 104 4.8%
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Rank History for White students at Slade Middle School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CT State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 0.27 167th 168 0.6%
2019 0.03 165th 166 0.6%
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Data source: test scores: Connecticut Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

Redacting data from low population samples is a necessary step to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the results, as small sample sizes may not be representative of the broader population. Additionally, this measure helps protect the privacy of individuals belonging to these demographic groups.

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Data source: Connecticut State Department of Education

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Reviews:
by a student
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Open Quote Slade, one of the worst places you can exist in during ‘’middle school’’, not only because of the students, it's also because of the way we are treated. It's ridiculous knowing not only the teachers usually don’t know how to teach themselves, usually blaming the students. In all respect, there are some good ones, to tell the truth, but the majority is bad.

Not only, not considering the students well being, and teaching them that acting spoiled is
‘’The way to go!’’ (The way to get out of trouble) Also the ‘’classrooms’’ smell afull ! The students curse often. If I were to stay in this community for as long as I did, I would curse often too. The quality is terrible, there are literal rats in the walls. Not even including the many skipping that happens in the stalls including: skipping, attempted makeouts, and etc. The one cafe’ in the school has often has ran out of food leaving some hungry or late. The food in the cafe’ tastes like burnt deep fried plastic, which gives the impression the they don’t care about our . The last thing I want to talk about their reputation. Its constantly gone down-hill from were it started. (Which was already terrible.) Close Quote


by a student
Friday, June 27, 2014

Open Quote slade middle school is one my FAVORITE middle school,On the last day i was crying my tears out and when i got home i cried all night,i cried myself to sleep for two days Close Quote



Enrollment information for Slade Middle School

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 244 96 17 273 0 n/a n/a 0 630
1989 228 81 18 294 1 n/a n/a 0 622
1990 288 170 20 253 3 n/a n/a 0 734
1991 274 141 17 364 2 n/a n/a 0 798
1992 263 151 25 412 1 n/a n/a 0 852
1993 245 148 23 405 1 n/a n/a 0 822
1994 182 99 19 334 0 n/a n/a 0 634
1995 207 102 21 371 1 n/a n/a 0 702
1996 207 102 21 371 1 n/a n/a 0 702
1997 235 102 27 388 2 n/a n/a 0 754
1998 246 107 18 420 2 n/a n/a 0 793
1999 250 121 10 428 1 n/a n/a 0 810
2000 230 129 11 449 0 n/a n/a 0 819
2001 242 139 14 446 0 n/a n/a 0 841
2002 267 174 16 519 1 n/a n/a 0 977
2003 267 174 16 519 1 n/a n/a 0 977
2004 236 159 11 505 1 n/a n/a 0 912
2005 223 165 8 535 1 n/a n/a 0 932
2006 206 157 11 507 1 n/a n/a 0 882
2007 148 132 7 453 0 n/a n/a 0 740
2008 117 137 9 434 0 n/a n/a 0 697
2009 135 157 9 359 3 n/a n/a 0 663
2010 135 158 14 407 2 n/a n/a 0 716
2011 129 157 9 418 0 0 3 0 716
2012 131 143 11 409 0 0 5 0 699
2013 135 140 15 425 0 0 11 0 726
2014 95 102 10 399 0 0 12 0 618
2015 112 106 9 531 1 0 17 0 776
2016 114 105 10 485 1 1 17 0 733
2017 150 112 9 518 2 0 16 0 807
2018 146 124 15 536 1 0 16 0 838
2019 128 118 11 584 1 0 24 0 866
2020 118 108 17 588 1 0 22 0 854
2021 107 102 13 593 1 0 26 0 842
2022 103 87 17 592 1 1 34 0 835
2023 88 95 14 559 0 1 35 3 795

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Slade Middle School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 630 50.0 12.6 n/a
1989 622 44.0 14.1 n/a
1990 734 55.0 13.3 n/a
1991 798 63.0 12.6 n/a
1992 852 67.1 12.6 38.5
1993 822 55.2 14.9 5
1994 634 53.5 11.9 53.5
1995 702 51.4 13.7 67.4
1996 702 51.4 13.7 67.4
1997 754 59.5 12.7 42.3
1998 793 58.9 13.5 43.8
1999 810 58.8 13.8 68
2000 819 61.6 13.3 70.2
2001 841 62.9 13.4 n/a
2002 977 66.5 14.7 68
2003 977 66.5 14.7 68
2004 912 68.3 13.4 73.5
2005 932 55.3 16.9 n/a
2006 882 53.5 16.5 63.7
2007 740 51.0 14.5 67.4
2008 697 54.4 12.8 69.3
2009 663 48.2 15.3 73.8
2010 716 48.1 14.8 77.1
2011 716 41.5 17.2 73.3
2012 699 40.4 17.3 82.1
2013 726 41.2 17.6 84.6
2014 618 51.5 12.0 85.8
2015 776 64.0 12.1 88.8
2016 733 66.0 11.1 94
2017 807 64.6 12.4 86
2018 838 68.3 12.2 85.6
2019 866 60.9 14.2 85.3
2020 854 61.1 13.9 75.1
2021 842 61.0 13.8 76.2
2022 835 53.0 15.7 78.4
2023 795 67.5 11.7 76.7

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Slade Middle School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 630 50.0 12.6 n/a
1989 622 44.0 14.1 n/a
1990 734 55.0 13.3 n/a
1991 798 63.0 12.6 n/a
1992 852 67.1 12.6 38.5
1993 822 55.2 14.9 5
1994 634 53.5 11.9 53.5
1995 702 51.4 13.7 67.4
1996 702 51.4 13.7 67.4
1997 754 59.5 12.7 42.3
1998 793 58.9 13.5 43.8
1999 810 58.8 13.8 68
2000 819 61.6 13.3 70.2
2001 841 62.9 13.4 n/a
2002 977 66.5 14.7 68
2003 977 66.5 14.7 68
2004 912 68.3 13.4 73.5
2005 932 55.3 16.9 n/a
2006 882 53.5 16.5 63.7
2007 740 51.0 14.5 67.4
2008 697 54.4 12.8 69.3
2009 663 48.2 15.3 73.8
2010 716 48.1 14.8 77.1
2011 716 41.5 17.2 73.3
2012 699 40.4 17.3 82.1
2013 726 41.2 17.6 84.6
2014 618 51.5 12.0 85.8
2015 776 64.0 12.1 88.8
2016 733 66.0 11.1 94
2017 807 64.6 12.4 86
2018 838 68.3 12.2 85.6
2019 866 60.9 14.2 85.3
2020 854 61.1 13.9 75.1
2021 842 61.0 13.8 76.2
2022 835 53.0 15.7 78.4
2023 795 67.5 11.7 76.7

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Slade Middle School

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YearTotal Expenditures Per Pupil
2018 $14,984
2019 $15,338
2020 $15,560
2021 $17,707
2022 $20,781
2023 $21,576

Data source: Connecticut Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Slade Middle School

The coronavirus has had a profound impact on education in America. Learning shifted online overnight, attendance numbers dwindled, and enrollment decreased. SchoolDigger.com is making it easier for you to better assess how COVID-19 has impacted your school. Through the collection of pre-pandemic (2019) and current data, SchoolDigger.com is sharing test scores, enrollment numbers and school demographics from schools across the country – and we make it easy to see how impacted schools compare locally and statewide.

Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 256th of 259 Middle schoolsRanks 242nd of 249 Middle schools
 1.7%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
6th Grade English Language Arts (Slade Middle School)11.313.1
 1.8%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (New Britain School District)1916.8
 2.2%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (Connecticut)55.348
 7.3%
7th Grade English Language Arts (Slade Middle School)15.313
 2.3%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (New Britain School District)20.215.4
 4.8%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (Connecticut)56.148.8
 7.3%
7th Grade Mathematics (Slade Middle School)3.53.3
 0.2%
   7th Grade Mathematics (New Britain School District)97.8
 1.2%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Connecticut)46.139.9
 6.2%
8th Grade English Language Arts (Slade Middle School)12.613.4
 0.8%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (New Britain School District)19.816.4
 3.4%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (Connecticut)55.848.5
 7.3%
8th Grade Mathematics (Slade Middle School)2.93.9
 1%
   8th Grade Mathematics (New Britain School District)9.57.7
 1.8%
   8th Grade Mathematics (Connecticut)43.536.2
 7.3%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students866795
 8.2%
African American11895
 19.5%
American Indian10
 100%
Asian1114
 27.3%
Hispanic584559
 4.3%
Pacific Islander01
White12888
 31.3%
Two or More Races2435
 45.8%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients85.3%76.7%
 8.6%


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Frequently Asked Questions about Slade Middle School

Students at Slade Middle School are 70% Hispanic, 12% African American, 11% White, 4% Two or more races, 2% Asian.

Slade Middle School ranks in the bottom 2.4% of Connecticut middle schools.

In the 2022-23 school year, 795 students attended Slade Middle School.

Students who attend Slade Middle School usually go on to attend New Britain High School


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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Connecticut Department of Education.

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