Queensbury Senior High School, Queensbury NY

Original Research by School Decision on Queensbury Senior High School

Queensbury Senior High School serves grades nine through twelve on the Queensbury Union Free School District's consolidated campus along Aviation Road, where all four district buildings sit together on a single large tract. That arrangement is worth knowing from the start: students who come up through this district have spent their entire K-12 experience on one campus, and the high school shares that space with the elementary, intermediate, and middle buildings rather than sitting in a separate location.

The school's enrollment puts it in a mid-range size for a four-year public high school. Roughly a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a meaningful share and reflects the mix of economic circumstances across Queensbury's households. The school is predominantly white, with small shares of Asian, Hispanic, and multiracial students and very small numbers of Black and other students. Data on English learners and students with IEPs were not available in what we reviewed.

State assessment results and graduation rate data were not available in the data provided. The neighbor comparison set, which looks at districts across Warren County, listed those measures as not applicable because the underlying values were missing rather than because the school falls outside a tested grade range. This is a genuine gap in what we can characterize about academic outcomes, and a parent looking for a detailed picture of proficiency or graduation trends would want to ask the school directly or consult the New York State Education Department's public reports.

The surrounding community shapes the experience in practical ways. Queensbury sits at the foothills of the Adirondacks, about an hour's drive north of Albany, and reads more as a suburban corridor town than a traditional village. The main arteries, Aviation Road and Route 9, are lined with chain retail, big-box stores, and the Aviation Mall. Walking and transit are limited; publicly reported walkability scores for the area register very low, and most families depend on cars. The public library serving residents, Crandall Public Library, is actually located in adjacent downtown Glens Falls rather than within Queensbury itself. For outdoor access, the Warren County Bikeway runs north through town toward Lake George, and places like the Hudson Pointe Nature Preserve and Gurney Lane Recreation Area offer trails close by.

The local economy mixes healthcare, education, tourism and hospitality, retail, and some manufacturing, with SUNY Adirondack (Adirondack Community College) located off Bay Road and employers like Hudson Headwaters Health Network and C.R. Bard present in the area. Queensbury has been one of the faster-growing towns in the region, with ongoing residential construction and recent apartment additions.

On the housing side, the area's typical home value sits below the New York State median but above the national median, and values have been rising at a pace faster than the national average recently. For buyers, the price-to-income ratio is meaningful, and estimated monthly mortgage payments at current rates would be a real consideration. Rental data was not available in what we reviewed.

For families weighing this district, two recent district-level developments are worth knowing. Voters approved a capital project in late 2023 to overhaul the elementary school, with work touching the high school bathrooms as well, signaling that the physical plant is being actively reinvested in. The district also launched a full-day universal pre-kindergarten program in 2023 and expanded it the following year, creating an on-campus pre-K option for families with four-year-olds. Tax levy increases have been kept modest in recent years, generally near or within the state cap, which matters for homeowners thinking about the long-run cost of the school portion of their property taxes.

Program-specific offerings at the high school, including AP courses, dual enrollment, career and technical pathways, or extracurriculars, were not available in the data we reviewed. A parent interested in course breadth or specific academic programs should reach out to the school or explore the district's website directly.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

91.0%Cohort of 302 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,253 schools plotted. 14 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Advanced Placement & IB

24 subjects offered · 2023-24

Each card is one AP or IB subject. The headline number is the share of students scoring 3 or higher on the exam — the threshold for college credit at most universities. The bar below each rate shows the underlying distribution across performance levels.

Score:12· no credit345· extremely well qualified

Math and Computer Science

Calculus AB

21 tested

85.7%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

13 tested

92.3%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

6 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Chemistry

18 tested

94.4%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Microeconomics

22 tested

72.7%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

16 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Spanish Language and Culture

8 tested

62.5%

scored 3 or higher

International Baccalaureate

Ib Biology HL

5 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Biology SL

12 tested

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Chemistry HL

15 tested

73.3%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Economics SL

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib History Hl History of the Americas

25 tested

52.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language a Language and Literature English HL

37 tested

54.1%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language Ab Initio Spanish SL

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language B French SL

5 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language B Spanish SL

16 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Mathematics Analysis and Approaches SL

36 tested

77.8%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Mathematics Applications and Interpretation SL

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Music SL

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Physics SL

16 tested

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Psychology HL

11 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Visual Arts HL

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

World History

48 tested · Grade 10

87.5%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Social Studies	272	82.0%
Ela	250	88.0%
Science	200	69.0%
Math	82	37.0%

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.