CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL

CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL is one of the close-knit high schools in CAIRO, New York, part of CAIRO-DURHAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 333 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL sits 50% smaller than that benchmark.

CAIRO-DURHAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,037 students; CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Greene County put the typical household earns roughly $77,945 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Greene County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,042 students), CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 55.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 384 (now 333). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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