FONDA-FULTONVILLE 5-8 SCHOOL
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FONDA-FULTONVILLE 5-8 SCHOOL
FONDA-FULTONVILLE 5-8 SCHOOL is a tight-knit intermediate school in FONDA, New York, operated by FONDA-FULTONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 382 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.
FONDA-FULTONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,242 students. FONDA-FULTONVILLE 5-8 SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, FONDA-FULTONVILLE 5-8 SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Montgomery County (around 62%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, FONDA-FULTONVILLE 5-8 SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.1%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of -1.4 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $64,943 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. FONDA-FULTONVILLE 5-8 SCHOOL is one of 16 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 7,225 students).
FONDA-FULTONVILLE K-4 SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FONDA-FULTONVILLE 5-8 SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.3%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FONDA-FULTONVILLE 5-8 SCHOOL has fell 15%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 95% to 91% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.
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