East Hudson Valley News

Of the 2,364 students in Columbia County who took the 2022-23 English Language Arts test, 29.8% met expectations and 13.6% did better than expected, according to the New York State Education Department.

In total, 43.4% of Columbia County students met or exceeded expectations, marking a 1.8% increase from the previous school year's results.

Within the county, Germantown Junior-Senior High School students performed the best in English Language Arts, with 61% of them considered proficient in the subject. Meanwhile, Montgomery C. Smith Elementary School students fared the worst, with only 27% passing the test.

The state registered an overall proficiency rate of 48% of students who met or exceeded expectations.

A recent study by Scholaroo ranked New York's education system among the best in the U.S., and place it as the second best in terms of school quality.

Currently, the state has the highest per-pupil spending in the nation at $33,440, or a total of $84.7 billion annually.

School	Students who met standards (%)	Students who exceed standards (%)	Total Enrollment
Germantown Junior-Senior High School	33%	28%	209
Ichabod Crane Middle School	39%	18%	650
Ichabod Crane Elementary School	34%	22%	486
Walter B. Howard Elementary School	32%	12%	230
New Lebanon Junior-Senior High School	30%	14%	183
Taconic Hills Elementary School	29%	13%	562
Germantown Elementary School	31%	11%	276
Taconic Hills Junior/Senior High School	24%	15%	502
Mary E. Dardess Elementary School	29%	9%	360
Hudson Junior High School	23%	13%	383
Chatham Middle School	24%	11%	186
Montgomery C. Smith Elementary School	22%	5%	723