Enrollment
336
High
DISTRICT 217 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOLIVAR-RICHBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360001201092
BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
100 SCHOOL ST, BOLIVAR, NY 14715 · (585) 928-2561 · Allegany County
GRADES 06–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL336 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
8.2:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
185 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 6 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 9 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 10 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 11 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 12 | 50 | 15% |
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · 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 BOLIVAR-RICHBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
44.1%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.5pp since 2023
Math
55.5%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.1% | 55.5% |
| 2023-24 | 48.6% | 49.8% |
% 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
49.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 →
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BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (49.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 336 | 55.1% | 49.8% |
| BRUSHTON-MOIRA HIGH SCHOOL BRUSHTON | 334 | 54.5% | 43.9% |
| WHITEHALL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WHITEHALL | 325 | 53.2% | 49.3% |
| CASSADAGA VALLEY MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL SINCLAIRVILLE | 382 | 56.3% | 43.6% |
| JAMES A GREEN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DOLGEVILLE | 369 | 53.4% | 47.5% |
| OPPENHEIM-EPHRATAH-ST JOHNSVILLE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ST JOHNSVILLE | 349 | 57.9% | 47.6% |
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 BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.8% | #740 of 1,135 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #496 of 1,109 ▲ 145 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #1,018 of 1,135 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 336 | #861 of 1,216 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.2:1 | #73 of 1,058 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.9% | #996 of 1,070 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.1% | #646 of 1,167 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.2% | #283 of 743 |
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
336
-35 (-9%) vs 2020
-42% since 2000-01, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
8.2:1
was 9.5:1
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 | 336 | 40.9 | 8.2:1 | 55% (185) |
| 2023-24 | 350 | 39.5 | 8.9:1 | 60% (209) |
| 2022-23 | 341 | 38.1 | 8.9:1 | 58% (198) |
| 2020-21 | 371 | 39 | 9.5:1 | 51% (189) |
| 2017-18 | 396 | 39.7 | 10.0:1 | 50% (199) |
| 2015-16 | 414 | 34 | 12.2:1 | 58% (242) |
| 2010-11 | 455 | 39 | 11.7:1 | 42% (192) |
| 2000-01 | 577 | 48 | 12.0:1 | 56% (321) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a low-enrollment high school serving families in BOLIVAR, New York. Classes run from 6 through 12, and the school has 336 students. Against the 668-student average for high schools in New York, enrollment here is 50% lower.
BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the 3 schools that make up BOLIVAR-RICHBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (651 students in total).
Most students at BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are White: 94% of enrollment. Other groups include 3% multiracial and 2% Hispanic. County-wide, about 93% of residents are White. BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has a diversity index of 11%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates with 40.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 8.2:1. That ratio is under the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports 55% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
The allk12 Grade for BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is C. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 28% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 54.7%. BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL scores 49.8%, 5.0 points below that line.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Allegany County show that median household income is about $62,869, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 21 public schools in Allegany County, which together enroll about 5,589 students.
BOLIVAR-RICHBURG PRE-K PROGRAM is the public school closest to BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 2 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th of 7 nearby schools, at 49.8% versus a 57.5% average.
For locale, NCES codes BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL as Rural: Distant.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 336 was 9% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 371. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (8.2:1) than in 2020-21 (9.5:1).
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Allegany County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,159
Census ACS
Median income
$62,869
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
5,589 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BOLIVAR-RICHBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BOLIVAR-RICHBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 298 students
- BOLIVAR-RICHBURG PRE-K PROGRAMElementary · 17 students
Nearby schools
- BOLIVAR-RICHBURG PRE-K PROGRAM0.4 mi · 17
- BOLIVAR-RICHBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 298
- Oswayo Valley JSHS7.5 mi · 140
- Oswayo Valley Elementary School7.5 mi · 132
- PORTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.0 mi · 534
- PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL9.1 mi · 445
Frequently asked questions
About BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow large is BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 336 students in grades 06-12.
Is BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many teachers does BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.2:1.
What is the student diversity at BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Black, 3% Two or more.
What district is BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of BOLIVAR-RICHBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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