TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the small secondary schools in CRARYVILLE, New York, operated by TACONIC HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 471 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 29% below that benchmark.

TACONIC HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 974 students; TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest reads as 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.5%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Columbia County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,528 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 17 public schools in Columbia County (combined enrollment of about 6,006 students).

TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 40.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 26%, going from 640 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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