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What's the most underrated thing about CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
615
High
DISTRICT 504 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL VALLEY CSD AT ILION-MOHAWK·NCES 360108701283
CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY
111 FREDERICK ST, ILION, NY 13357 · (315) 895-7471 · Herkimer County
GRADES 09–12HIGH31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL615 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of New York public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
12.7:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
0%
3 students
DISTRICT 1% · 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 | 179 | 29% |
| Grade 10 | 141 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 150 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 135 | 22% |
| Ungraded | 10 | 2% |
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · 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 CENTRAL VALLEY CSD AT ILION-MOHAWK. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
81.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
44.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -25.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 25 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 88.0% | 69.0% |
% 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
63.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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 CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY
CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY's state test result (63.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY this school | 615 | 0.5% | 63.5% |
| SHOREHAM-WADING RIVER HIGH SCHOOL SHOREHAM | 629 | 6.0% | 83.3% |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL COLD SPRING HARBOR | 719 | 3.2% | 92.8% |
| EDEN MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL EDEN | 652 | 11.0% | 71.4% |
| BRONXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL BRONXVILLE | 535 | 4.5% | 94.8% |
| RYE HIGH SCHOOL RYE | 887 | 2.4% | 90.3% |
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 CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Herkimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #472 of 1,135 | #5 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #687 of 1,109 ▼ 312 | #8 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #401 of 1,135 ▼ 86 | #1 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 615 | #430 of 1,216 | #1 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #801 of 1,058 | #7 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.7% | #879 of 1,070 | #3 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 0.5% | #1,166 of 1,167 | #8 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.1% | #687 of 743 | N/A |
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
615
-22 (-3%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 615 | 48.3 | 12.7:1 | 0% (3) |
| 2023-24 | 617 | 47.9 | 12.9:1 | 62% (383) |
| 2022-23 | 624 | 47.3 | 13.2:1 | 74% (461) |
| 2020-21 | 637 | 44 | 14.5:1 | 82% (520) |
| 2017-18 | 628 | 45 | 13.9:1 | 64% (405) |
| 2015-16 | 667 | 52 | 12.8:1 | 52% (348) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY.
About CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY
CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY is a medium-sized high school in ILION, New York, (ZIP code 13357). The school serves 615 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25.
The CENTRAL VALLEY CSD AT ILION-MOHAWK system has 4 schools and 2,015 students.
The large majority of students at CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY, 89%, are White. Next come 4% multiracial and 4% Hispanic. County-wide, about 92% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 20%.
Federal staffing data show 48.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY and a ratio of 12.7:1. The average ratio among high schools in New York is 11.0:1, lower than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 0% of enrollment. The 44% average for public schools in Herkimer County is 44 points higher.
CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 36% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 63.5%, compared with a predicted 74.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
According to the American Community Survey, in Herkimer County, median household income is about $68,515, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. A total of 25 public schools operate in Herkimer County, serving about 9,619 students.
BARRINGER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the public school closest to CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY, about 0.9 miles away. CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY ranks 2nd of 5 nearby schools, at 63.5% versus a 51.5% average.
Federal records code the school's setting as Town: Fringe.
The number of students dropped from 637 to 615 over 4 years. The school's ratio fell from 14.5:1 to 12.7:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Herkimer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
59,757
Census ACS
Median income
$68,515
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
9,619 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CENTRAL VALLEY CSD AT ILION-MOHAWK
- GREGORY B JARVIS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 618 students
- BARRINGER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 434 students
- HARRY M FISHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 348 students
Nearby schools
- BARRINGER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 434
- GREGORY B JARVIS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 618
- HARRY M FISHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 348
- FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 379
- HERKIMER HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 537
- FRANKFORT-SCHUYLER MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 183
Frequently asked questions
About CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMYHow large is CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY?
CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 615 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY serve?
CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY is approximately 12.7:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY?
Student demographics at CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY are roughly 89% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY in?
CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY is part of CENTRAL VALLEY CSD AT ILION-MOHAWK.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.