# VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361968001803`
- **School name**: VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: MONTGOMERY, NY 12549
- **Address**: 1175 STATE RT 17K
- **District**: VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY) (LEAID `3619680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.52423, -74.21652
- **Phone**: (845)457-2400
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7911988 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Central_High_School
- **Founded**: 1961

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,385
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 115
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 36.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 3
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS ELP: 4
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS Weight Performance: 3
  - HS Grad Rate: 2
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.0% (cohort of 370)
- **2021**: 93.0% (cohort of 345)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.8% (420 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (26 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.4% (272 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 24.0%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 11.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 60.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 37.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.2% — 269 students
- **English Learners**: 0.7% — 10 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 145 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 61 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 28 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,978
- **Federal share**: $2,019
- **State + local share**: $24,959
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,399
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,431,879
- **Federal share**: 6.6%
- **State share**: 38.4%
- **Local share**: 55.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $18,001,219

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $96,944
- **Poverty rate**: 6.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.7%
- **Unemployment**: 1.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,517
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.4 miles (NEPERA CHEMICAL CO INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 10.49 miles (DIAMOND CANDLE FACTORY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MONTGOMERY VILLAGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.78491 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 0.42% (this school: 1.57%)
- **MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 1.57%)
- **BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.57%)
- **WALDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 1.18% (this school: 1.57%)
- **EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.57%)

### graduation rate
- **WALLKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 90%)
- **PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 7.2 mi away, 94% (this school: 90%)
- **WASHINGTONVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 7.2 mi away, 94% (this school: 90%)
- **GOSHEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 9.1 mi away, 96% (this school: 90%)
- **CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 9.3 mi away, 98% (this school: 90%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-central-high-school-montgomery/workforce

---
*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*