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MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of mid-sized scale in MARLBORO, New York, part of MARLBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 629 students in grades 9 through 12.
MARLBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,849 students; MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
Looking at the student body, MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 55%. The remainder comes out to 29% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 33% of students at MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ulster County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.2%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ulster County indicate median household earnings sit near $86,271, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 45 public schools in Ulster County (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students).
MARLBORO MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.
MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 586 (now 629). White enrollment moved from 71% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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