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RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES
RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES is an all-grades campus of medium-sized scale in CASTLETON, New York, one of the schools within RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES, educateing 506 students in grades K through 12.
RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES sits inside RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
For racial and ethnic makeup, RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES lists that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 11% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.
On the resource side, RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES shows 148 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.4:1. The state averages around 8.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Rensselaer County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $87,915 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Rensselaer County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,274 students), of which RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES is one.
The closest other public school is GREEN MEADOW SCHOOL, roughly 1.0 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RENSSELAER-COLUMBIA-GREENE BOCES has edged up 65%, going from 306 students in 2018 to 506 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 22% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 3.4:1 today.
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