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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,010
High
DISTRICT 597 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CORNWALL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360843000642
CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
10 DRAGON DR, NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 · (845) 534-8009 · Orange County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL1,010 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% 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.
- B+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
13.3:1
76 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
214 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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 | 264 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 234 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 262 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 241 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 1% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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 CORNWALL 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
90.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -17.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 17 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 93.0% | 92.0% |
% 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
78.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (78.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,010 | 21.2% | 78.5% |
| LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LYNBROOK | 846 | 18.9% | 92.0% |
| LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL SHRUB OAK | 966 | 25.9% | 86.8% |
| HARBORFIELDS HIGH SCHOOL GREENLAWN | 923 | 21.1% | 93.2% |
| HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL HAUPPAUGE | 1,038 | 20.4% | 88.8% |
| SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL ROCKVILLE CENTRE | 959 | 20.6% | 77.2% |
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 CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.5% | #200 of 1,135 | #1 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #199 of 1,109 ▼ 120 | #2 of 14 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #175 of 1,135 ▲ 2 | #3 of 14 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,010 | #239 of 1,216 | #9 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #857 of 1,058 | #11 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.0% | #250 of 1,070 | #6 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.2% | #1,083 of 1,167 | #13 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #476 of 743 | #4 of 10 |
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
1,010
-100 (-9%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 831
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 1,010 | 76.2 | 13.3:1 | 21% (214) |
| 2023-24 | 1,022 | 76.2 | 13.4:1 | 13% (129) |
| 2022-23 | 1,027 | 74.1 | 13.9:1 | 20% (204) |
| 2020-21 | 1,110 | 70 | 15.9:1 | 20% (223) |
| 2017-18 | 1,105 | 67.8 | 16.3:1 | 17% (189) |
| 2015-16 | 1,082 | 67 | 16.1:1 | 12% (131) |
| 2010-11 | 1,160 | 65 | 17.9:1 | 9% (109) |
| 2000-01 | 1,112 | 68 | 16.4:1 | 7% (73) |
| 1990-91 | 831 | 64 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL.
About CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school with an address in NEW WINDSOR, New York. It educates 1,010 students in grades 9 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in New York is about 668 students.
CORNWALL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT operates 5 schools. Combined enrollment is 2,985 students.
At 57%, White students outnumber all other groups at CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL combined. The remaining students are 25% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% Asian, and 4% multiracial. By the diversity index, CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL comes in at 60%.
CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL's 76.2 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 13.3:1. For comparison, high schools in New York average 11.0:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 21%. That is lower than the 44% average for public schools in Orange County.
CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 76% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 78.5% actual against 67.2% predicted.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Orange County show that median household income is about $97,178, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 82 public schools in Orange County, with a combined enrollment of about 57,122.
The school nearest to CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is VAILS GATE STEAM ACADEMY, at a distance of about 1.6 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is Rural: Fringe, which covers schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 9% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. The ratio was 15.9:1 in 2020-21 and 13.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CORNWALL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 905 students
- CORNWALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 595 students
- CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 239 students
- WILLOW AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 236 students
Other schools in NEW WINDSOR
- TEMPLE HILL SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- VAILS GATE STEAM ACADEMYElementary · 500 students
- LITTLE BRITAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 442 students
- NEW WINDSOR SCHOOLElementary · 439 students
- KAPLAN CAREER ACADEMYHigh · 89 students
Nearby schools
- VAILS GATE STEAM ACADEMY1.6 mi · 500
- KAPLAN CAREER ACADEMY1.8 mi · 89
- WILLOW AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 236
- CORNWALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 595
- CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 905
- TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL2.6 mi · 890
Frequently asked questions
About CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHow large is CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL?
CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,010 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL serve?
CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 13.3:1 (76 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL?
At CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 57% White, 25% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL in?
CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is part of CORNWALL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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