CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

As a compact secondary school in CANDOR, New York, CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL hosts 306 students from grades 7 through 12, one of the schools within CANDOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 54% below the state mean of about 668.

Across the 2 schools in CANDOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (707 students total), CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Tioga County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Tioga County's rate of about 53%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.4%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Tioga County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,739 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Tioga County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,112 students), CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 347 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.