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Enrollment
526
High
DISTRICT 499 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUTNAM VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362400004837
PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
146 PEEKSKILL HOLLOW RD, PUTNAM VALLEY, NY 10579 · (845) 526-7847 · Putnam County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL526 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New York public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
11.4:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
108 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 | 148 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 122 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 119 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 137 | 26% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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 PUTNAM VALLEY CENTRAL 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
87.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -17.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 17 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 89.0% | 84.0% |
% 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
80.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (80.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 526 | 20.5% | 80.0% |
| NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL NORTH SALEM | 492 | 22.8% | 71.7% |
| RYE NECK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MAMARONECK | 469 | 21.5% | 74.8% |
| PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL SAG HARBOR | 501 | 27.5% | 70.5% |
| LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL LOCUST VALLEY | 583 | 27.3% | 88.2% |
| CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL CENTER MORICHES | 511 | 28.4% | 71.7% |
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 PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #182 of 1,135 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #316 of 1,109 ▼ 150 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #275 of 1,135 ▲ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 526 | #509 of 1,216 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #607 of 1,058 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.5% | #479 of 1,070 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.5% | #1,090 of 1,167 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.2% | #534 of 743 |
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
526
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
+89% since 2000-01, when it was 279
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 526 | 46 | 11.4:1 | 21% (108) |
| 2023-24 | 496 | 46.9 | 10.6:1 | 25% (122) |
| 2022-23 | 503 | 49.6 | 10.1:1 | 23% (114) |
| 2020-21 | 543 | 47 | 11.6:1 | 24% (130) |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 47 | 12.1:1 | 17% (96) |
| 2015-16 | 598 | 40 | 14.9:1 | 16% (94) |
| 2010-11 | 618 | 44 | 14.1:1 | 9% (58) |
| 2000-01 | 279 | 23 | 12.1:1 | 12% (34) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL.
About PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is a low-enrollment high school in PUTNAM VALLEY, New York, one of the schools in PUTNAM VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 526 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 9 through 12. It has 21% fewer students than the average for high schools in New York (about 668).
District-wide, PUTNAM VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 3 schools and 1,498 students.
More than half of enrollment at PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is White: 64%. Enrollment also includes 29% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 2% multiracial. Among people living in Putnam County, the White share is about 75%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1, with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 21% at PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL.
On the allk12 Grade, PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 78% of New York public high schools.
In New York, PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 80.0% actual against a predicted 67.4%.
American Community Survey estimates for Putnam County show that the median household earns about $126,257 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Putnam County has 23 public schools with about 12,955 students, including PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, PUTNAM VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, is the closest to PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is ahead of the 67.7% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 9.
PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL enrolled 543 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 526.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL. You can also rate the school on this page.
Putnam County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
98,107
Census ACS
Median income
$126,257
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
12,955 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PUTNAM VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PUTNAM VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 526 students
- PUTNAM VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 446 students
Other schools in PUTNAM VALLEY
- PUTNAM VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 526 students
- PUTNAM VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 446 students
Nearby schools
- PUTNAM VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 446
- GEORGE WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 411
- LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 966
- PUTNAM VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 526
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 466
- VAN CORTLANDTVILLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 568
Frequently asked questions
About PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL?
PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 526 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL?
At PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 64% White, 29% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PUTNAM VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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