VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, a heavily attended 9-12 campus in MONTGOMERY, New York, run under VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY), enrolls 1,385 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 107% bigger than the state mean of about 668.

Within VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY), which oversees 6 schools and 4,152 students, VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 33% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL shows 115 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Orange County's rate of about 44%.

After controlling for student poverty, VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.7%, the actual is 78.3%, a residual of +16.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Orange County runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), of which VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 5 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), VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.9%.

VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 1,407 (now 1,385). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 66% to 50%.

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