ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is an one-room-style secondary school in ALEXANDRIA BAY, New York, one of the schools within ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 224 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 66% leaner than typical.
ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 467 students; ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
On demographics, ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 64.8%, a residual of +5.2 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,301 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Jefferson County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,789 students), of which ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.6%.
ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL has contracted 8%, going from 244 students in 2018 to 224 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.
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