The 10 Dumbest Places In New York For 2026

6 thoughts on “The 10 Dumbest Places In New York For 2026”

1. I don’t know where your statistics came from but Albions dropout rate is no where near 46%.

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2. Your information is completely wrong. Albion’s graduation rate is 87%, while our nation’s graduation rate is 82%. Just alone New York’s average graduation rate is 76.8%, quite a bit lower than little old Albion’s percentages.

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3. Gloversville is my hometown and it is upsetting to read these statistics and call G’ville “a dumb city “. I read the entire list ranking various cities, it may leave people with thoughts of what can we do
   #1 parents and teachers and administrators all do their jobs Make the child go to school, pass and graduate. Parents need lessons on “parenting”.
   #2 ever citizen should take pride of their town and show it by taking care of property weather you own it or renting it. #3volunteer in your community. Help is always appreciated and needed.
   #4. Businesses could band together and plant flowers on downtown Main Street. I am sure the city has various ideas to help . I know of one helping hand……. the library needs extensive repairs. And one person or a few started and idea and the snow ball went downhill accumulating donations from all graduates of Gloversville High School, if you graduated say 1938 you sent a check for $38.00. I am a graduate from 1962 I sent a check for $62.00. This has become a contest as what glass will give the most money.
   Maybe all the people who moved away could donate to “Help my Hometown”
   I have babbled enough.

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4. Thanks for putting this together.There’s an error on #4. You mention Albion but you’re referring to Amsterdam. It’s interesting, although you’re right, an education is important but can be achieved outside of school, it’s rare that there are so many self driven people in one town, especially when they weren’t driven enough to complete their school education, even through homeschooling, and to graduate. Still, I can’t help but notice the highest graduation rates come from,the wealthiest cities.

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5. This is far from scientific.f. First, you didn’t measure intelligence, so you can’t rank “dumb”. Second, it doesn’t appear that you weighted demographics, or SES factors that would allow you to compare apples to apples. Why’s that important? Well the older generations often didn’t finish high school or continue to higher education. Immigrants are likely not going to have attended higher education, high concentrations of blue collar jobs do not require folks to have higher educations to be successful. Those who fit those jobs settle in those areas. In other words, if you look at a rich, relatively young, established town and they have a high drop out rate, that’s a problem. If you have a town full of elderly, ESL, blue collar folks, the lower education rate is not a problem, and could actually be a trend towards higher education levels. Next time, be scientific. Give your work a representative title, and discuss your work’s short comings and lack of generalizability. Whatever your goal was, you made a lot of kids feel badly about themselves.

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6. I find this article to be most insulting, unscientific, and judgmental.
   Why don’t you look into some of the reasons why some residents of these cities or towns are not educated so well? Does everyone have to be as “rich” as residents of Bronxville or Scarsdale to be “Smart?”
   This is a bigoted article, and please remove me from receiving any more of your insulting blogs.
   Many of the towns you mentioned have high-achieving students, despite low economic standing.
   As an educator and mother, I find this attitude intolerable!

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