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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
945
Middle
DISTRICT 692 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY)·NCES 361968001802
VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
1189 STATE RT 17K, MONTGOMERY, NY 12549 · (845) 457-2400 · Orange County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL945 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
94 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
377 students
DISTRICT 37% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 292 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 319 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 322 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 12 | 1% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Students here typically continue to
VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL→VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY). Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
67.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -32.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 33 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 67.5% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
61.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% 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 VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (61.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 945 | 39.9% | 61.1% |
| WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL WASHINGTONVILLE | 884 | 40.0% | 52.3% |
| WAPPINGERS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 764 | 39.4% | 55.9% |
| SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL HOLTSVILLE | 893 | 37.7% | 58.5% |
| J WATSON BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL KINGSTON | 936 | 45.6% | 45.4% |
| GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL CARMEL | 1,138 | 35.6% | 46.0% |
Matched among New York middle 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 VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #246 of 766 | #4 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #293 of 768 ▼ 263 | #6 of 16 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #442 of 768 ▲ 38 | #10 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 945 | #94 of 796 | #3 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #292 of 683 | #3 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.1% | #159 of 688 | #6 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.9% | #528 of 773 | #11 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.4% | #436 of 524 | #10 of 12 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
945
-39 (-4%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 931
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 945 | 94.2 | 10.0:1 | 40% (377) |
| 2023-24 | 952 | 97.5 | 9.8:1 | 42% (400) |
| 2022-23 | 982 | 89.8 | 10.9:1 | 41% (401) |
| 2020-21 | 984 | 93 | 10.6:1 | 36% (358) |
| 2017-18 | 988 | 92 | 10.7:1 | 37% (363) |
| 2015-16 | 1,018 | 90 | 11.3:1 | 36% (362) |
| 2010-11 | 1,152 | 91 | 12.7:1 | 26% (297) |
| 2000-01 | 1,268 | 95 | 13.3:1 | 35% (440) |
| 1990-91 | 931 | 62 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle-grades school based in MONTGOMERY, New York. Total enrollment is 945 students, and the grades served are 6 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in New York enroll about 531 students on average.
VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY) operates 6 schools. Combined enrollment is 4,152 students.
White students are 51% of those enrolled at VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL. Beyond that, enrollment is 33% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 6% multiracial. In Orange County overall, about 62% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 62, compared with 70 nationally.
VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL has 94.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1. The 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is close to this figure. At VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, 40% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
On the allk12 Grade, VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at B+, ahead of 66% of New York public middle schools.
In New York, VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 61.1% actual against a predicted 60.3%.
Orange County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $97,178, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 82 public schools in the county, enrolling about 57,122, VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
A public school about 0.1 miles away, VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, is the closest to VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL. The count of other public schools within five miles is 5. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Fringe, or in a town close to an urbanized area.
Enrollment was 945 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 984.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL. You can also rate the school on this page.
Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY)
- VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,385 students
- MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 539 students
- BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 497 students
- WALDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 447 students
- EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 339 students
Other schools in MONTGOMERY
- VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,385 students
- MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 539 students
- BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 497 students
Nearby schools
- VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,385
- MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 539
- BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 497
- WALDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 447
- EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.0 mi · 339
- JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL5.9 mi · 409
Frequently asked questions
About VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 945 students in grades 06-08.
Is VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.0:1 (94 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 51% White, 33% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY) in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.