DUANESBURG HIGH SCHOOL

DUANESBURG HIGH SCHOOL, a cozy high school in DELANSON, New York, operated by DUANESBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 290 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 57% below the state mean of about 668.

DUANESBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 646 students; DUANESBURG HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, DUANESBURG HIGH SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school reports 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Schenectady County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DUANESBURG HIGH SCHOOL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting DUANESBURG HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Schenectady County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DUANESBURG HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.1%, the actual is 64.9%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the broader community, Schenectady County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,623 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. DUANESBURG HIGH SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in Schenectady County (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students).

DUANESBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DUANESBURG HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 57.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 339 students in 2018 compared to 290 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 in 2025.

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