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MARLBORO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
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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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