SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL

As a tight-knit 9-12 campus in SCHENECTADY, New York, SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL caters to 545 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by SCHALMONT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by SCHALMONT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 1,753 students overall.

Demographically, SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Schenectady County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 30% of students at SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Schenectady County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.9%, the actual is 69.8%, a residual of +5.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Schenectady County put the typical household earns roughly $79,623 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Schenectady County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students), SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SCHALMONT 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. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL has declined 14%, going from 634 students in 2018 to 545 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

On the community side, members of the SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.