VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a roomy intermediate school in MONTGOMERY, New York, VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL teaches 945 students from grades 6 through 8, part of VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY). Enrollment runs roughly 78% bigger than the state mean of about 531.

VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY) runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,152 students. VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 33% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.3%, the actual is 61.1%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 82 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students).

VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 55.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 988 students in 2018 compared to 945 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 62% to 51%.

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