ELDRED JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 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 up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ELDRED JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
ELDRED JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the tiny senior highs in ELDRED, New York, operated by ELDRED CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 214 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 68% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.
ELDRED CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 454 students. ELDRED JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, ELDRED JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sullivan County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ELDRED JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.5%; this one delivers 57.1%.
In the area at large, census data for Sullivan County shows median household income runs about $72,382, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. ELDRED JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 20 public schools in Sullivan County (combined enrollment of about 9,164 students).
GEORGE ROSS MACKENZIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.6 miles from this campus. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ELDRED JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.1%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Five-year trend. ELDRED JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 253 (now 214). White enrollment moved from 87% to 80% across the same window.
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