NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in NEW LEBANON, New York, operated by NEW LEBANON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 173 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 74% smaller than that benchmark.
NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by NEW LEBANON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 411 students overall.
Demographically, NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Columbia County as a whole.
On the resource side, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.0%; this one delivers 60.8%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Columbia County put median household income runs about $81,528, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Columbia County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,006 students), of which NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: WALTER B HOWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 4.4 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
NEW LEBANON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 212 students in 2018 compared to 173 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 84% across the same window.
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