Enrollment
246
Combined
STATE 544
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363150004220
WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL
29 SCHOOL LN, WILLSBORO, NY 12996 · (518) 963-4456 · Essex County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL246 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
25 FTE teachers
STATE 8.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
1%
3 students
STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
47.5%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.9pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +36.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 37 points.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
46.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-27.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 75% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
246
-22 (-8%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 8.9:1
% White
90%
was 93%
% Hispanic
3%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL
WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL, a low-enrollment all-grades campus in WILLSBORO, New York, overseen by WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 246 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% below the state mean of about 544.
WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL sits inside WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On demographics, WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, On paper, WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.7:1, putting WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 1% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Essex County (around 41%), the school's rate is south of typical.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 74.5%; actual is 46.8%, a gap of -27.8 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Essex County) logs that median household income runs about $71,661, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL is one of 16 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 3,746 students).
Shelburne Community School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.8 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 268 students in 2018 compared to 246 in 2025.
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Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
36,973
Census ACS
Median income
$71,661
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
3,746 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Nearby schools
- Shelburne Community School7.8 mi · 788
- Charlotte Central School9.2 mi · 407
- Orchard School10.1 mi · 402
- KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL10.3 mi · 364
- Champlain School10.5 mi · 559
- Burlington High School11.4 mi · 921
Frequently asked questions
About WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOLHow large is WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL?
WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 246 students in grades PK-12.
Is WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL is a combined-grade school covering grades PK-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL is approximately 9.8:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL?
WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL reports a student body of 90% White, 3% Hispanic, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL?
WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL is overseen by WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Essex County.
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