AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a senior high of rural-scale scale in AFTON, New York, run under AFTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 219 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 67% below the state mean of about 668.

AFTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 429 students. AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.7:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.2%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of -10.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Chenango County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,948 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Chenango County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,036 students), AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 237 (now 219). Class-load math has fell: from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 6.7:1 in 2025.

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