MIDDLEBURGH JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

As a low-enrollment high school in MIDDLEBURGH, New York, MIDDLEBURGH JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL hosts 284 students from grades 7 through 12, run under MIDDLEBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 57% below typical.

MIDDLEBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 614 students; MIDDLEBURGH JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, MIDDLEBURGH JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at MIDDLEBURGH JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Schoharie County's rate of about 46%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MIDDLEBURGH JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.7%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Schoharie County indicate median household income runs about $70,133, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Schoharie County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,597 students), of which MIDDLEBURGH JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is MIDDLEBURGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MIDDLEBURGH JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 352 students in 2018 compared to 284 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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