Ellenville High School is a co-ed high school in

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. The school is in the Ellenville Central School District, which serves

Ellenville Ellenville is a village within the town of Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York, United States. Its population was 4,135 at the 2010 census. Geography The village of Ellenville is about 90 miles northwest of New York City and 90 miles southwest ...

, the town of Wawarsing and the hamlets of Cragsmoor and Napanoch. The building was renovated in 1996 and features a highly advanced distance learning classroom, as well as a state-of-the-art digital

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system. It also was one of the first fifteen participants in a statewide anti-school violence program started by then-

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. In 2007 the New York Foundation for Educational Reform and Accountability identified the school as one of

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's fifteen "

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factories", based on data from a

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study that it claimed showed 60 percent or less of its graduating senior classes had been

ninth graders.

References

External links

School website
{{authority control Public high schools in New York (state) Schools in Ulster County, New York Wawarsing, New York