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Enrollment
924
High
DISTRICT 693 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360000404545
MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
2072 CURRY RD, SCHENECTADY, NY 12303 · (518) 356-8300 · Schenectady County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL924 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of New York public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
367 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 254 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 224 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 210 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 221 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 15 | 2% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
72.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -9.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 72 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 down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 69.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (62.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 924 | 39.7% | 62.2% |
| KENMORE EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TONAWANDA | 1,052 | 40.7% | 56.6% |
| SPENCERPORT HIGH SCHOOL SPENCERPORT | 1,127 | 39.5% | 82.5% |
| BROCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL BROCKPORT | 995 | 42.3% | 69.8% |
| CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CARTHAGE | 887 | 43.5% | 65.3% |
| WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WEST SENECA | 779 | 36.7% | 66.0% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #498 of 1,135 | #5 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #445 of 1,109 ▼ 72 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #543 of 1,135 ▼ 97 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 924 | #266 of 1,216 | #3 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #933 of 1,058 | #6 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.6% | #475 of 1,070 | #3 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.7% | #858 of 1,167 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.5% | #245 of 339 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
924
+82 (+10%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 937
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 924 | 65.9 | 14.0:1 | 40% (367) |
| 2023-24 | 890 | 69.9 | 12.7:1 | 42% (378) |
| 2022-23 | 886 | 64.4 | 13.8:1 | 46% (406) |
| 2020-21 | 842 | 57 | 14.8:1 | 39% (328) |
| 2017-18 | 893 | 60.8 | 14.7:1 | 36% (325) |
| 2015-16 | 946 | 60 | 15.8:1 | 33% (309) |
| 2010-11 | 1,066 | 72 | 14.8:1 | 34% (359) |
| 2000-01 | 1,025 | 62 | 16.5:1 | 9% (91) |
| 1990-91 | 937 | 60 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
A medium-sized high school in SCHENECTADY, New York, MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. A federal count lists 924 students at the school, in grades 9 through 12. Average enrollment for high schools in New York is about 668, so this school runs 38% bigger than that.
ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. It runs 4 schools with 2,772 students.
By race and ethnicity, MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 68% White. It is also 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Black, and 4% Asian. For comparison, Schenectady County is about 69% White. MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has a diversity index of 51%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 65.9 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 14.0:1. That ratio is over the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 40%. That rate is below the 50% average among public schools in Schenectady County.
The allk12 Grade for MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is B-. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 48% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 1.8 points above its prediction. Actual: 62.2%. Predicted: 60.4%.
County data help place the school in context: in Schenectady County, median household income is about $79,623, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among the 40 public schools in Schenectady County.
The school nearest to MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. Within five miles of MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Federal data place MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 842 in 2020-21 and 924 in 2024-25, a 10% gain.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Schenectady County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,369
Census ACS
Median income
$79,623
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
21,555 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
- HERMAN L BRADT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 591 students
Other schools in SCHENECTADY
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,379 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 671 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
- IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 614 students
Nearby schools
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 655
- HERMAN L BRADT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 602
- VAN CORLAER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 311
- PINE BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 462
- HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 440
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 591
Frequently asked questions
About MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 924 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 68% White, 11% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.