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What's something AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
870
High
DISTRICT 509 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AVERILL PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360001600111
AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL
146 GETTLE RD, AVERILL PARK, NY 12018 · (518) 674-7000 · Rensselaer County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL870 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of New York public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
240 students
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 214 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 196 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 212 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 238 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 10 | 1% |
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within AVERILL PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
86.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -9.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 95.0% | 67.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
79.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL
AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (79.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL this school | 870 | 27.6% | 79.5% |
| WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL MARCY | 914 | 27.1% | 80.0% |
| THEODORE R DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BALDWINSVILLE | 848 | 28.1% | 59.2% |
| HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL HAMBURG | 979 | 24.7% | 87.2% |
| GRAND ISLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL GRAND ISLAND | 868 | 29.0% | 90.7% |
| QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL QUEENSBURY | 971 | 32.3% | 65.0% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Rensselaer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.5% | #186 of 1,135 | #2 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #240 of 1,109 ▲ 154 | #4 of 8 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #281 of 1,135 ▼ 176 | #3 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 870 | #288 of 1,216 | #3 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #982 of 1,058 | #8 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.3% | #931 of 1,070 | #7 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.6% | #1,018 of 1,167 | #6 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #548 of 743 | #5 of 6 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
870
-3 (0%) vs 2020
-21% since 2000-01, when it was 1,099
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 13.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 870 | 58.4 | 14.9:1 | 28% (240) |
| 2023-24 | 884 | 63.9 | 13.8:1 | 28% (249) |
| 2022-23 | 897 | 62.4 | 14.4:1 | 25% (223) |
| 2020-21 | 873 | 64 | 13.6:1 | 20% (175) |
| 2017-18 | 931 | 72 | 12.9:1 | 20% (185) |
| 2015-16 | 999 | 71 | 14.1:1 | 16% (161) |
| 2010-11 | 1,130 | 88 | 12.8:1 | 10% (113) |
| 2000-01 | 1,099 | 77 | 14.3:1 | 9% (98) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL.
About AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL
AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL is a mid-sized high school serving families in AVERILL PARK, New York. The school covers grades 9 through 12 and reported 870 students in 2024-25. On average, high schools in New York enroll around 668, and this school is 30% larger than that mark.
AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL is run by AVERILL PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 5 schools enroll 2,543 students.
The share of White students at AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL is 91%. Enrollment also includes 4% multiracial. The school's White share is 11 points above the 80% share among Rensselaer County residents. The diversity index for AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL is 15%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 58.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL has a ratio of 14.9:1. The gap from the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is 3.9 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 28%. Compared with the 46% average for public schools in Rensselaer County, the school's rate is lower.
On the allk12 Grade, AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 81% of New York public high schools.
AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 79.5% is 14.7 points above the 64.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school is in Rensselaer County, where median household income comes to about $87,915, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Rensselaer County's 42 public schools enroll about 19,274 students and include AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL.
Measured in a straight line, ALGONQUIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 1.4 miles from AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: 4. AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 873 in 2020-21 and 870 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 13.6:1 in 2020-21 to 14.9:1 in 2024-25.
AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Rensselaer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,332
Census ACS
Median income
$87,915
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
19,274 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in AVERILL PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ALGONQUIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 608 students
- MILLER HILL SCHOOLElementary · 377 students
- WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 354 students
- POESTENKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 334 students
Other schools in AVERILL PARK
- ALGONQUIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 608 students
- MILLER HILL SCHOOLElementary · 377 students
Nearby schools
- ALGONQUIN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 608
- MILLER HILL SCHOOL1.5 mi · 377
- WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 354
- POESTENKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 334
- GARDNER-DICKINSON SCHOOL5.5 mi · 306
- BELL TOP SCHOOL5.8 mi · 304
Frequently asked questions
About AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL?
AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 870 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL serve?
AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 14.9:1 (58 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL?
At AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 91% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by AVERILL PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.