HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH 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 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a senior high of close-knit scale in HAMILTON, New York, one of the schools within HAMILTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 286 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 57% leaner than that benchmark.
HAMILTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 542 students. HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 4% Asian, 3% Black, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Madison County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Madison County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.1%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +4.0 points.
In the area at large, census data for Madison County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,499 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 25 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 8,402 students).
Nearest neighbor: HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 51.3%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Over the past 7-year window. HAMILTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 283 (now 286). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 94% to 90% over that span.
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