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QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Set in QUEENSBURY, New York, QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a reasonably sized senior high, run under QUEENSBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 971 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 45% bigger than typical.
QUEENSBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 3,028 students. QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Warren County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, On paper, QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 32% of students at QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Warren County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
With demographic context factored in, QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.1%, the actual is 65.0%, a residual of +1.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Warren County put the typical household earns roughly $78,442 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Warren County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,825 students), QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.8%.
QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.
Looking at the recent track record. QUEENSBURY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 1,123 (now 971). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.
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