MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
As a cozy secondary school in MADRID, New York, MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL caters to 309 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within MADRID-WADDINGTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 54% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.
Across the 2 schools in MADRID-WADDINGTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (612 students total), MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest is composed of 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.5:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.9%, the actual is 56.9%, a residual of -3.0 points.
Across the wider county, census data for St. Lawrence County shows median household income runs about $62,850, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in St. Lawrence County (combined enrollment of about 13,653 students).
The closest other public school is MADRID-WADDINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Trend over the last 7 years. MADRID-WADDINGTON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 368 (now 309). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.
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