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What's the biggest difference between QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
971
High
DISTRICT 757 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·QUEENSBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362403003318
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
409 AVIATION RD, QUEENSBURY, NY 12804 · (518) 824-4626 · Warren County
GRADES 09–12HIGH23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL971 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New York public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
314 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 238 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 260 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 244 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 208 | 21% |
| Ungraded | 21 | 2% |
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · 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 QUEENSBURY UNION FREE 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
88.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
37.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 90.0% | 33.0% |
% 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
65.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (65.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 971 | 32.3% | 65.0% |
| HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL HORSEHEADS | 1,119 | 31.5% | 76.8% |
| CANANDAIGUA ACADEMY CANANDAIGUA | 998 | 36.7% | 86.7% |
| SOUTH GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH GLENS FALLS | 939 | 37.4% | 71.8% |
| AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL AVERILL PARK | 870 | 27.6% | 79.5% |
| GRAND ISLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL GRAND ISLAND | 868 | 29.0% | 90.7% |
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 QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #435 of 1,135 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #784 of 1,109 ▲ 68 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #249 of 1,135 ▲ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 971 | #249 of 1,216 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #726 of 1,058 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.7% | #925 of 1,070 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.3% | #968 of 1,167 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.5% | #332 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
971
-78 (-7%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 927
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 971 | 79.6 | 12.2:1 | 32% (314) |
| 2023-24 | 974 | 84.6 | 11.5:1 | 35% (339) |
| 2022-23 | 980 | 82.1 | 11.9:1 | 31% (304) |
| 2020-21 | 1,049 | 85 | 12.3:1 | 31% (327) |
| 2017-18 | 1,123 | 83.6 | 13.4:1 | 27% (303) |
| 2015-16 | 1,127 | 82 | 13.7:1 | 27% (300) |
| 2010-11 | 1,183 | 83 | 14.3:1 | 14% (163) |
| 2000-01 | 1,093 | 72 | 15.2:1 | 12% (132) |
| 1990-91 | 927 | 58 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school in QUEENSBURY, New York, under QUEENSBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Grades offered run from 9 through 12, with 971 students enrolled. For comparison, high schools in New York average about 668 students.
The district for QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is QUEENSBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 4 schools and 3,028 students.
White students are the large majority at QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, with 91% of enrollment. Next come 3% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. The White share in Warren County as a whole is similar, at about 92%. The chance that two students picked at random at QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 16%.
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 79.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 12.2:1. That ratio is over the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 32% in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Warren County report 41%.
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 52% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 65.0% actual against 63.1% predicted.
County data help place the school in context: in Warren County, median household income is about $78,442, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among the 19 public schools in Warren County.
The nearest other public school, QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL places 4th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Small locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The number of students dropped from 1,049 to 971 over 4 years.
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Warren County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
65,517
Census ACS
Median income
$78,442
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
7,825 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in QUEENSBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- QUEENSBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 952 students
- QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 671 students
- WILLIAM H BARTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 434 students
Other schools in QUEENSBURY
- QUEENSBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 952 students
- QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 671 students
- WILLIAM H BARTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 434 students
Nearby schools
- QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 671
- QUEENSBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 952
- WILLIAM H BARTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 434
- KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL1.7 mi · 263
- GLENS FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOL2.1 mi · 610
- GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 628
Frequently asked questions
About QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 971 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 12.2:1 (80 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
At QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 91% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by QUEENSBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Warren County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.