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Enrollment
3,550
High
DISTRICT 897 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362070002910
NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY
201 FULLERTON AVE, NEWBURGH, NY 12550 · (845) 563-5400 · Orange County
GRADES 09–12HIGH13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL3,550 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.9:1
256 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
1,765 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 1,008 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 935 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 699 | 20% |
| Grade 12 | 867 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 41 | 1% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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 NEWBURGH CITY 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
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
22.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -17.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 17 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 22.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
45.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY
NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY's state test result (45.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY this school | 3,550 | 49.7% | 45.0% |
| NORTH ROCKLAND HIGH SCHOOL THIELLS | 2,798 | 55.5% | 67.3% |
| WILLIAM FLOYD HIGH SCHOOL MASTIC BEACH | 3,107 | 50.9% | 41.7% |
| WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WHITE PLAINS | 2,239 | 49.8% | 62.2% |
| NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL NEW ROCHELLE | 3,047 | 58.8% | 56.0% |
| PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL MEDFORD | 2,487 | 51.7% | 70.0% |
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 NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #831 of 1,135 | #14 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #992 of 1,109 ▼ 221 | #14 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #753 of 1,135 ▲ 94 | #13 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 3,550 | #8 of 1,216 | #1 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #920 of 1,058 | #12 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.5% | #311 of 1,070 | #8 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.7% | #696 of 1,167 | #3 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.4% | #140 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
3,550
+119 (+3%) vs 2020
+80% since 1990-91, when it was 1,973
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 3,550 | 255.9 | 13.9:1 | 50% (1,765) |
| 2023-24 | 3,521 | 265.5 | 13.3:1 | 56% (1,957) |
| 2022-23 | 3,433 | 278.7 | 12.3:1 | 56% (1,917) |
| 2020-21 | 3,431 | 261 | 13.2:1 | 55% (1,883) |
| 2017-18 | 3,217 | 255 | 12.6:1 | 56% (1,806) |
| 2015-16 | 3,202 | 245 | 13.1:1 | 68% (2,178) |
| 2010-11 | 3,459 | 269 | 12.9:1 | 55% (1,916) |
| 2000-01 | 2,505 | 190 | 13.2:1 | 41% (1,033) |
| 1990-91 | 1,973 | 163 | 12.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY.
About NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY
NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY is a large high school with an address in NEWBURGH, New York. Its enrollment is 3,550 students, spread over grades 9 through 12. On average, high schools in New York enroll around 668, and this school is 431% bigger than that mark.
The NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 12 schools and 10,762 students.
More than half of the students at NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY are Hispanic (60%). The remaining shares are 20% Black, 13% White, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Orange County's population at about 24%. The diversity index for NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 255.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.9:1. The gap from the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is 2.8 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 50%.
NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 15% of New York public high schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 56.7% for NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY. The school posts 45.0%, 11.7 points below the prediction.
In the surrounding county, Orange County, median household income comes to about $97,178, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county's public schools total 82, with about 57,122 students.
GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY places 4th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school's student count rose 3% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MEADOW HILL SCHOOLElementary · 982 students
- TEMPLE HILL SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOLElementary · 788 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 782 students
- GARDNERTOWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 612 students
Other schools in NEWBURGH
- MEADOW HILL SCHOOLElementary · 982 students
- GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOLElementary · 788 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 782 students
- GARDNERTOWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 612 students
- FOSTERTOWN SCHOOLElementary · 594 students
- HORIZON-ON-THE-HUDSON SCHOOLElementary · 447 students
Nearby schools
- GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL0.3 mi · 788
- HORIZON-ON-THE-HUDSON SCHOOL1.0 mi · 447
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 782
- BALMVILLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 376
- NEW WINDSOR SCHOOL2.1 mi · 439
- GARDNERTOWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 612
Frequently asked questions
About NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMYHow many students attend NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY?
NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY enrolls approximately 3,550 students in grades 09-12.
Is NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY.
What is the student diversity at NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY?
Student demographics at NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY are roughly 13% White, 60% Hispanic, 20% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY in?
NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY is part of NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.