BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 17400 NY 22, in CHERRY PLAIN, New York, BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is a close-knit senior high that serves 323 students (grades 6 through 12), run under BERLIN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL sits 52% leaner than that benchmark.

BERLIN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 579 students. BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Rensselaer County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,915 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Rensselaer County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,274 students), BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BERLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 3.6 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.6%.

BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. BERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 412 (now 323). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 today.

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