Public school / High
Valley Central High School
Montgomery, New York
- NCES ID
- 361968001803
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Valley Central High School is a public high school in Montgomery, New York, run by Valley Central School District (Montgomery). It enrols 1,346 students — the 4701st largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,346
Teachers
113.0
Students per teacher
11.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
38.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Valley Central School District (Montgomery)
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Valley Central High School1,346 students
- 2Valley Central Middle School982 students
- 3Montgomery Elementary School548 students
- 4Berea Elementary School477 students
- 5Walden Elementary School411 students
- 6East Coldenham Elementary School295 students
- Enrollment+197.1%
- Teachers+205.4%
- Students per teacher+3.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−33.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory