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GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE 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 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary-level community in GOSHEN, New York, part of GOSHEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 603 students, covering grades 3 through 5. That puts it 36% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.
GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by GOSHEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 2,737 students overall.
Demographically, GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL logs that 63% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 25% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Orange County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 44%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.1%; this one delivers 45.5%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Orange County) shows that median household income runs about $97,178, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 82 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students).
The closest other public school is SCOTCHTOWN AVENUE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.5%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 658 students in 2018 compared to 603 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.
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