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Does FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
597
Combined
STATE 544
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361107004552
FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL
104 W MAIN ST, FILLMORE, NY 14735 · (585) 567-2289 · Allegany County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL597 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of New York public K-12 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 K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
68 FTE teachers
STATE 8.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
332 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 57 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 6% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 6% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 6% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 6% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 7% |
| Grade 6 | 39 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 46 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 43 | 7% |
| Grade 9 | 51 | 9% |
| Grade 10 | 43 | 7% |
| Grade 11 | 41 | 7% |
| Grade 12 | 33 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 14% smaller than its 8th grade class (43).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
59.5%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.3pp since 2023
Math
85.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +17.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.5% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.3% | 67.3% |
% 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
61.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL
FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL's state test result (61.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL this school | 597 | 55.6% | 61.0% |
| MADISON CENTRAL SCHOOL MADISON | 413 | 50.1% | 38.8% |
| AVOCA CENTRAL SCHOOL AVOCA | 369 | 58.3% | 47.3% |
| NORTH WARREN CENTRAL SCHOOL CHESTERTOWN | 470 | 47.7% | 53.3% |
| CHERRY VALLEY-SPRINGFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL CHERRY VALLEY | 420 | 48.3% | 38.3% |
| PRATTSBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL PRATTSBURGH | 351 | 52.4% | 44.6% |
Matched among New York K-12 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 FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Allegany County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #23 of 101 | #3 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #10 of 101 ▲ 22 | #1 of 8 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.5% | #34 of 101 ▼ 6 | #3 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 597 | #34 of 192 | #1 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.8:1 | #91 of 146 | #6 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.5% | #140 of 152 | #6 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.6% | #63 of 136 | #2 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.2% | #53 of 95 | #6 of 7 |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
597
-55 (-8%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 792
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 597 | 68 | 8.8:1 | 56% (332) |
| 2023-24 | 608 | 68 | 8.9:1 | 51% (308) |
| 2022-23 | 650 | 62 | 10.5:1 | 54% (351) |
| 2020-21 | 652 | 58 | 11.2:1 | 57% (372) |
| 2017-18 | 680 | 58 | 11.7:1 | 52% (356) |
| 2015-16 | 653 | 53 | 12.3:1 | 53% (349) |
| 2010-11 | 709 | 57 | 12.4:1 | 46% (323) |
| 2000-01 | 734 | 54 | 13.6:1 | 32% (232) |
| 1990-91 | 792 | 54 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL.
About FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL
FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL runs as a medium-sized combined-grade school in FILLMORE, New York. The school serves 597 students in pre-K through 12 in 2024-25.
FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL falls under FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Most students at FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL are White: 96% of enrollment. For comparison, Allegany County is about 93% White. By the diversity index, FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL comes in at 8%.
Its teaching staff equals 68 full-time positions, a ratio of 8.8:1. Combined schools in New York average about 8.7:1, a similar figure. Around 56% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL a B+. The grade compares the school only with New York public K-12 schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 54.5% for FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL. The school posts 61.0%, 6.5 points above the prediction.
According to the American Community Survey, in Allegany County, median household income is about $62,869, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 21 public schools operate in Allegany County, serving about 5,589 students.
Nearest public school: BELFAST SCHOOL, about 8.6 miles away. Compared with its nearest neighbors, FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL ranks 4th of 9 on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Remote.
FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 8% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 11.2:1 in 2020-21, and 8.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Allegany County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,159
Census ACS
Median income
$62,869
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
5,589 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Nearby schools
- BELFAST SCHOOL8.6 mi · 318
- LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL11.3 mi · 311
- LETCHWORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL11.3 mi · 279
- LETCHWORTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL11.3 mi · 268
- DALTON-NUNDA MIDDLE SCHOOL12.0 mi · 154
- DALTON-NUNDA SECONDARY SCHOOL12.0 mi · 190
Frequently asked questions
About FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOLHow many students attend FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL?
FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 597 students in grades PK-12.
What age range does FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL serve?
FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL is approximately 8.8:1 (68 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL?
At FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 96% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL in?
FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL is part of FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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