HARRY HOAG SCHOOL

HARRY HOAG SCHOOL, a cozy elementary-level community in FORT PLAIN, New York, overseen by FORT PLAIN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 341 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so HARRY HOAG SCHOOL sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Within FORT PLAIN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 657 students, HARRY HOAG SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, HARRY HOAG SCHOOL records that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Montgomery County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, HARRY HOAG SCHOOL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting HARRY HOAG SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at HARRY HOAG SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, HARRY HOAG SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,943 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Montgomery County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,225 students), HARRY HOAG SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

FORT PLAIN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around HARRY HOAG SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARRY HOAG SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 28%: 475 students in 2018 compared to 341 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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