Maple Hill Junior/senior High School, Castleton NY

Original Research by School Decision on Maple Hill Junior/senior High School

Maple Hill Junior/Senior High School serves grades seven through twelve in Castleton-on-Hudson, a Hudson River village in Rensselaer County about an hour north of New York City's capital region. The school enrolls students across a modest size range and sits within Schodack Central School District, a community that has kept property-tax increases modest and recently completed a significant capital project to upgrade learning facilities.

The school's academic profile shows mixed results on New York State testing. In seventh-grade math and ELA, proficiency rates sit in the mid-to-upper range. By eighth grade, proficiency drops noticeably in both subjects, with math proficiency falling to about half of tested students. Eighth-grade ELA follows a similar pattern. Science is a relative strength: eighth-grade proficiency on that exam comes in higher than math or ELA at that grade. Overall, the school's proficiency index across tested subjects and grades places it in the top quartile among Rensselaer County's districts. A parent may want to look into further what support structures are in place for students in the seventh-to-eighth-grade transition, where proficiency declines are steepest.

One data note: eighth-grade participation rates for math, ELA, and science all fall well short of full testing participation, with science participation at under half those enrolled. State testing data was not available for high school grades, which limits the picture for the upper half of the school's enrollment.

The student body is predominantly white, with small shares of students identifying as Hispanic, multiracial, or Asian. About one in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on special education enrollment and English learners was not available.

Castleton-on-Hudson itself is a small village anchored by civic and recreational institutions including a public library, riverside and neighborhood parks, and Schodack Island State Park nearby. The village has pursued downtown revitalization through state programs and reports new Main Street businesses in recent years. Public transit connects to neighboring cities via regional bus service. Housing values in the area are moderate relative to national benchmarks, and rental costs, while increasing, remain below the monthly cost of a mortgage on the median home in the zip code.

Schodack Central School District approved a major capital improvement project in 2022 that funded building upgrades, STEM technology enhancements, security improvements, and facility work across the district without requiring a tax increase due to the timing of debt retirement. In subsequent years, the district has maintained tax levy increases at or below the state cap, a pattern relevant to families making long-term housing and schooling decisions in the community.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=95%Cohort of 67 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

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

11 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

10 tested

70.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

3 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

13 tested

84.6%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

12 tested

41.7%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

20 tested

25.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

U.S. History

35 tested

54.3%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

8 tested

87.5%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

20 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

24 tested

45.8%

scored 3 or higher

World History

26 tested · Grade 10

80.8%

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	87	85.0%
Math	72	93.0%
Ela	70	83.0%
Science	13	23.0%

Math

Grade 766%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 855%

School 55% · District 53% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 765%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 851%

School 51% · District 50% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Science

Grade 871%

School 71% · District 69% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

This schoolSCHODACK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 7Lower-income46%Higher-income71%25 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income50%Higher-income52%2 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 7Lower-income46%Higher-income73%27 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income33%Higher-income61%28 pp gap