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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