AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-grades school of middle-of-the-pack scale in AUBURN, New York, overseen by AUBURN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 560 students in grades 7 through 8.

AUBURN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,732 students. AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 14% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cayuga County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of -9.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cayuga County) shows that median household income runs about $67,904, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 22 public schools in Cayuga County (combined enrollment of about 8,576 students).

The closest other public school is HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has shrank 7%, going from 599 students in 2018 to 560 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 79% to 73%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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