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PERRY JUNIOR 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 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
As a reasonably sized senior high in NEW HARTFORD, New York, PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL caters to 577 students from grades 7 through 10, overseen by NEW HARTFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
NEW HARTFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,466 students. PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 19% of students at PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Oneida County's rate of about 47%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.8%; this one delivers 81.5%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Oneida County put median household earnings sit near $70,154, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Oneida County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 49.9%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 586 students in 2018 to 577 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.
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