# VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361968001802`
- **School name**: VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: MONTGOMERY, NY 12549
- **Address**: 1189 STATE RT 17K
- **District**: VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY) (LEAID `3619680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.52403, -74.21872
- **Phone**: (845)457-2400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 945
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 94
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 3
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.0% (128 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.3% (184 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.7%
- **Asian**: 8.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 56.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.5% — 205 students
- **English Learners**: 0.9% — 9 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 103 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 47 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,017
- **Federal share**: $2,019
- **State + local share**: $27,998
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 952
### 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)**: 4.3 miles (NEPERA CHEMICAL CO INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 10.59 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**: 11.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **OSTRANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **LITTLE BRITAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)

### ela proficiency
- **EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 50% (this school: 39%)
- **JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 45% (this school: 39%)
- **OSTRANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 44% (this school: 39%)
- **MEADOW HILL SCHOOL** — 7.0 mi away, 40% (this school: 39%)
- **CIRCLEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 46% (this school: 39%)

### math proficiency
- **JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 76% (this school: 71.33%)
- **WILLOW AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 11.1 mi away, 88% (this school: 71.33%)
- **CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 11.2 mi away, 82.4% (this school: 71.33%)
- **CORNWALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 11.2 mi away, 74% (this school: 71.33%)

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

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*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.*

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