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Which teacher or staff member at SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
545
High
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHALMONT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362598003571
SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL
1 SABRE DR, SCHENECTADY, NY 12306 · (518) 355-6110 · Schenectady County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL545 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of New York public high schools
- B+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.
- ·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
10.8:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
164 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 147 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 138 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 131 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 121 | 22% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 1% |
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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 SCHALMONT 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% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
64.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -15.0pp 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 64 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 64.0% |
| 2023-24 | 92.0% | 79.0% |
% 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
69.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL
SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (69.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL this school | 545 | 30.1% | 69.8% |
| RED HOOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL RED HOOK | 549 | 27.3% | 77.8% |
| ONEIDA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ONEIDA | 487 | 33.1% | 62.2% |
| WESTHILL HIGH SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 525 | 30.7% | 73.7% |
| VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL VERONA | 584 | 30.8% | 70.3% |
| STILLWATER MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL STILLWATER | 490 | 31.0% | 60.7% |
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 SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.8% | #351 of 1,135 | #3 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #373 of 1,109 ▼ 141 | #3 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #277 of 1,135 ▼ 53 | #2 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 545 | #491 of 1,216 | #5 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #484 of 1,058 | #2 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.6% | #764 of 1,070 | #4 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.1% | #992 of 1,167 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #317 of 743 | N/A |
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
545
-55 (-9%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 663
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 545 | 50.4 | 10.8:1 | 30% (164) |
| 2023-24 | 541 | 49.2 | 11.0:1 | 30% (163) |
| 2022-23 | 572 | 48.1 | 11.9:1 | 33% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 600 | 47 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 634 | 42.6 | 14.9:1 | 25% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 609 | 40 | 15.2:1 | 24% (146) |
| 2010-11 | 670 | 50 | 13.4:1 | 10% (68) |
| 2000-01 | 744 | 51 | 14.6:1 | 11% (84) |
| 1990-91 | 663 | 44 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL.
About SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL
SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL is a public high school run by SCHALMONT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in SCHENECTADY, New York. The school counts 545 students across grades 9 through 12.
The district, SCHALMONT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 3 schools serving 1,753 students.
The large majority of students at SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL, 81%, are White. The rest of enrollment is 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian, and 2% Black. Among all residents of Schenectady County, the White share is about 69%. By the diversity index, SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL comes in at 33%.
The school has about 10.8 students per teacher and 50.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. High schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 11.0:1. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 50% average among public schools in Schenectady County.
allk12 grades SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL a B. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 63.9%. SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL scores 69.8%, 5.9 points above that line.
SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL is located in Schenectady County, where median household income is about $79,623, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in Schenectady County, which together enroll about 21,555 students.
The shortest distance from SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL. The five-mile area around SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 69.8% average proficiency ranks 1st among 9 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Federal counts put enrollment at 600 in 2020-21 and 545 in 2024-25, a 9% decrease. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.8:1) than in 2020-21 (12.8:1).
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Schenectady County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,369
Census ACS
Median income
$79,623
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
21,555 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SCHALMONT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 671 students
- SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 537 students
Other schools in SCHENECTADY
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,379 students
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 924 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 671 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
Nearby schools
- SCHALMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 537
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 671
- VAN CORLAER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 311
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL3.2 mi · 655
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL3.2 mi · 924
- HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 440
Frequently asked questions
About SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOLHow large is SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL?
SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 545 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 10.8:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL?
At SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 81% White, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
SCHALMONT HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SCHALMONT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.