PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL operates as an intimate secondary school in PUTNAM VALLEY, New York, operated by PUTNAM VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 526 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 668.

PUTNAM VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,498 students; PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest looks like 29% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.4%, the actual is 80.0%, a residual of +12.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Putnam County shows median household income runs about $126,257, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Putnam County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,955 students), PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PUTNAM VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 67.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 567 (now 526). The White share of enrollment contracted from 77% to 64% over that span.

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