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AKRON HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About AKRON HIGH SCHOOL
AKRON HIGH SCHOOL is a four-year high school of compact scale in AKRON, New York, operated by AKRON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 389 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 42% below the state mean of about 668.
AKRON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,210 students. AKRON HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, AKRON HIGH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest is composed of 11% Native American, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), AKRON HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.1%; this one delivers 80.8%.
Around the school, Erie County reports that median household income runs about $72,839, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), AKRON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is AKRON MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, AKRON HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.2%.
AKRON HIGH SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.
Trend over the last 7 years. AKRON HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 451 (now 389). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.
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