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Enrollment
426
High
DISTRICT 260 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINE PLAINS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362304003231
STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
2829 CHURCH ST, PINE PLAINS, NY 12567 · (518) 398-7181 · Dutchess County
GRADES 06–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% 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.
- 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
8.0:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
173 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 6 | 44 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 9 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 10 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 80 | 19% |
| Grade 12 | 63 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 2% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
Based on grade levels within PINE PLAINS 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
69.3%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
67.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.3% | 67.3% |
| 2023-24 | 66.2% | 71.4% |
% 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
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (65.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 426 | 40.6% | 65.3% |
| SULLIVAN WEST HIGH SCHOOL AT LAKE HUNTINGTON LAKE HUNTINGTON | 492 | 40.9% | 65.3% |
| ONTEORA HIGH SCHOOL BOICEVILLE | 370 | 36.5% | 75.8% |
| GENESEO MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL GENESEO | 467 | 35.8% | 60.3% |
| FREDONIA HIGH SCHOOL FREDONIA | 461 | 35.6% | 81.3% |
| RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL RAVENA | 514 | 38.1% | 70.0% |
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 STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Dutchess County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #426 of 1,135 | #9 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #309 of 1,109 ▲ 32 | #5 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #589 of 1,135 ▲ 108 | #12 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #653 of 1,216 | #10 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.0:1 | #58 of 1,058 | #1 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.9% | #662 of 1,070 | #11 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.6% | #844 of 1,167 | #6 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #289 of 743 | #4 of 11 |
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
426
-78 (-15%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 535
Student : Teacher
8.0:1
was 8.8:1
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 | 426 | 53.5 | 8.0:1 | 41% (173) |
| 2023-24 | 446 | 54.5 | 8.2:1 | 37% (163) |
| 2022-23 | 460 | 54.6 | 8.4:1 | 37% (168) |
| 2020-21 | 504 | 57 | 8.8:1 | 41% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 501 | 50.8 | 9.9:1 | 39% (193) |
| 2015-16 | 319 | 26 | 12.3:1 | 37% (118) |
| 2010-11 | 393 | 29 | 13.6:1 | 27% (106) |
| 2000-01 | 716 | 51 | 14.0:1 | 24% (174) |
| 1990-91 | 535 | 60 | 8.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the name of a low-enrollment high school in PINE PLAINS, New York. It reported 426 students in grades 6 through 12 in 2024-25. By comparison, high schools in New York enroll about 668 students on average.
STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL falls under PINE PLAINS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 3 schools enrolling 780 students.
White students are 75% of those enrolled at STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Beyond that, enrollment is 14% Hispanic and 11% multiracial. A diversity index of 41% means there is a 41% chance two randomly chosen students at STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
Staffing at STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes to 53.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.0:1. High schools in New York average 11.0:1, 3.1 more students per teacher than here. STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL counts 41% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 40% average for public schools in Dutchess County.
STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 58% of New York public high schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 60.1%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 65.3%.
American Community Survey estimates for Dutchess County show that median household income comes to about $99,478, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Dutchess County counts 76 public schools with about 36,885 students.
SEYMOUR SMITH INTERMEDIATE LEARNING CENTER is about 0.8 miles from STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. A ten-mile radius around the school includes 5 other public schools. STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL places 2nd of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its NCES locale code is Rural: Distant: the school is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment fell 15% over 4 years, reaching 426 in 2024-25.
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Dutchess County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,220
Census ACS
Median income
$99,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
36,885 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PINE PLAINS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SEYMOUR SMITH INTERMEDIATE LEARNING CENTERElementary · 210 students
- COLD SPRING EARLY LEARNING CENTERElementary · 144 students
Other schools in PINE PLAINS
- SEYMOUR SMITH INTERMEDIATE LEARNING CENTERElementary · 210 students
Nearby schools
- SEYMOUR SMITH INTERMEDIATE LEARNING CENTER0.8 mi · 210
- COLD SPRING EARLY LEARNING CENTER6.6 mi · 144
- WEBUTUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.3 mi · 213
- WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL9.4 mi · 194
- EUGENE BROOKS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL9.4 mi · 236
- MILL ROAD-ELEMENTARY SCHOOL10.9 mi · 636
Frequently asked questions
About STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 426 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 06-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 8.0:1 (54 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
At STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 75% White, 14% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
STISSING MOUNTAIN JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of PINE PLAINS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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