WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a tight-knit 9-12 campus in WATERFORD, New York, operated by WATERFORD-HALFMOON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 330 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 51% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by WATERFORD-HALFMOON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 718 students overall.

In terms of who attends, WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest looks like 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Saratoga County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Saratoga County's rate of about 30%.

With demographic context factored in, WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.2%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of +3.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Saratoga County put median household income runs about $100,787, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Saratoga County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students), of which WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WATERFORD-HALFMOON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.9%.

WATERFORD-HALFMOON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 352 students in 2018 compared to 330 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2025.

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