ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL

ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized 6-8 campuss in VALATIE, New York, one of the schools within KINDERHOOK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 647 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 531.

Within KINDERHOOK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,679 students, ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL has 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Columbia County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.9%; this one delivers 61.0%.

In the broader community, Columbia County reports that median household income runs about $81,528, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 17 public schools in Columbia County (combined enrollment of about 6,006 students).

ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 64%: 394 students in 2018 compared to 647 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 90% to 75% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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