MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, a moderately sized K-5 school in MIDDLETOWN, New York, run under MINISINK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 509 students, covering grades 3 through 5.

MINISINK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,444 students. MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Orange County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 65.0%; MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL posts 38.8%, -26.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Orange County runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), of which MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one.

MINISINK VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 46.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 68% across the same window.

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