Enrollment
261
Combined
STATE 544
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OTSELIC VALLEY CSD·NCES 362210003132
OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL
125 COUNTY RD 13A, SOUTH OTSELIC, NY 13155 · (315) 653-7218 · Chenango County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL261 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of New York public K-12 schools
- DTest 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 K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
24 FTE teachers
STATE 8.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
116 students
STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 13 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 17 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 17 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 15 | 6% |
| Grade 3 | 17 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 25 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 14 | 5% |
| Grade 7 | 19 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 18 | 7% |
| Grade 9 | 22 | 8% |
| Grade 10 | 17 | 7% |
| Grade 11 | 27 | 10% |
| Grade 12 | 15 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (17) is 6% smaller than its 8th grade class (18).
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
36.2%
NY avg 58.3% . -0.5pp since 2023
Math
37.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.2% | 37.5% |
| 2023-24 | 36.8% | 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
38.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL
OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL's state test result (38.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL this school | 261 | 44.4% | 38.9% |
| GILBOA-CONESVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL GILBOA | 249 | 43.8% | 48.1% |
| TOWN OF WEBB SCHOOL OLD FORGE | 236 | 45.8% | 58.9% |
| WORCESTER SCHOOL WORCESTER | 308 | 46.1% | 47.8% |
| MORRIS CENTRAL SCHOOL MORRIS | 323 | 45.5% | 46.9% |
| CHARLOTTE VALLEY SCHOOL DAVENPORT | 322 | 46.0% | 43.9% |
Matched among New York K-12 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 OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #89 of 101 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #92 of 101 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #93 of 101 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 261 | #129 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #117 of 146 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.3% | #144 of 152 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.4% | #97 of 136 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.7% | #26 of 95 |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
261
-43 (-14%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 219
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 261 | 24 | 10.9:1 | 44% (116) |
| 2023-24 | 290 | 23 | 12.6:1 | 49% (143) |
| 2022-23 | 300 | 25 | 12.0:1 | 51% (152) |
| 2020-21 | 304 | 25 | 12.2:1 | 49% (149) |
| 2017-18 | 325 | 31 | 10.5:1 | 49% (158) |
| 2015-16 | 338 | 32 | 10.6:1 | 76% (256) |
| 2010-11 | 204 | 17 | 12.0:1 | 53% (109) |
| 2000-01 | 234 | 22 | 10.6:1 | 42% (99) |
| 1990-91 | 219 | 18 | 12.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL.
About OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL
This page covers OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL, a low-enrollment school serving multiple grade levels in SOUTH OTSELIC, New York. Enrollment totals 261 students across pre-K through 12. Across combined schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 544.
OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL is run by OTSELIC VALLEY CSD.
Roughly 97% of students at OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL scores 5%.
The school had 24 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 10.9:1. The gap from the 8.7:1 average for combined schools in New York is 2.2 students per teacher. The school reported 44% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Among New York public K-12 schools, OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL outscored 8%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
After accounting for student poverty, OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 38.9% is 19.7 points below the 58.6% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
The school is in Chenango County, where median household income comes to about $62,948, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chenango County counts 23 public schools with about 7,036 students.
DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL sits about 9.2 miles from OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL. Within ten miles of OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL, there are 5 other public schools. On state test proficiency, OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL ranks 6th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
NCES assigns OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL the locale Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment was 261 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 304. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 12.2:1 in 2020-21 to 10.9:1 in 2024-25.
The OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Chenango County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,321
Census ACS
Median income
$62,948
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
7,036 students
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- DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL9.2 mi · 187
- DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.2 mi · 119
- CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.3 mi · 190
- CINCINNATUS HIGH SCHOOL9.3 mi · 147
- CINCINNATUS MIDDLE SCHOOL9.3 mi · 125
- TRUXTON ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL13.3 mi · 84
Frequently asked questions
About OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOLHow many students attend OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL?
OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 261 students in grades PK-12.
What age range does OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL serve?
OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL?
At OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 97% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian.
Is OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL public or private?
OTSELIC VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by OTSELIC VALLEY CSD.
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