GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL

Located at 1 JAGUAR DR, in BELMONT, New York, GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack all-grades campus that serves 594 students (grades pre-K through 12), one of the schools within GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Operationally, GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL answers to GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Allegany County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 8.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.7%, the actual is 54.7%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Allegany County put median household income runs about $62,869, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Allegany County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,589 students), of which GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SCIO CENTRAL SCHOOL, roughly 5.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 16%: 511 students in 2018 compared to 594 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

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