CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY

CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY operates as a middle-of-the-pack senior high in ILION, New York, overseen by CENTRAL VALLEY CSD AT ILION-MOHAWK. Current enrollment sits at 615 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

CENTRAL VALLEY CSD AT ILION-MOHAWK runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,015 students. CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY shows that nearly all students (89%) are White; the rest is composed of 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 0% of students at CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Herkimer County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.8%; this one delivers 63.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for Herkimer County shows median household earnings sit near $68,515, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY is one of 25 public schools in Herkimer County (combined enrollment of about 9,619 students).

The closest other public school is BARRINGER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

CENTRAL VALLEY ACADEMY operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 628 students in 2018 compared to 615 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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