NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Math scores are down about 19 points since 2023.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
About NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION
NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION, a minimally staffed senior high in RENSSELAER, New York, operated by NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION, educates 83 students, covering grades 9 through 10. Enrollment runs roughly 88% leaner than the state mean of about 668.
NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION is the operating authority for NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
On demographics, NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION lists that 64% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 7% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Rensselaer County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 44.7%, a residual of +0.7 points.
Around the school, census data for Rensselaer County shows median household income runs about $87,915, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Rensselaer County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,274 students), NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION is one campus in the mix.
VAN RENSSELAER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 32.4%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site. NURSES MIDDLE COLLEGE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL-CAPITAL REGION is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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