JAMES I O'NEILL HIGH SCHOOL

JAMES I O'NEILL HIGH SCHOOL is a secondary school of cozy scale in FORT MONTGOMERY, New York, run under HIGHLAND FALLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 409 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so JAMES I O'NEILL HIGH SCHOOL sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in HIGHLAND FALLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (930 students total), JAMES I O'NEILL HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, JAMES I O'NEILL HIGH SCHOOL lists that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JAMES I O'NEILL HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.9%; this one delivers 64.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that median household earnings sit near $97,178, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. JAMES I O'NEILL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 82 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students).

Nearest neighbor: FORT MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JAMES I O'NEILL HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 68.3%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JAMES I O'NEILL HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 14%, going from 478 students in 2018 to 409 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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