CASCADES HIGH SCHOOL

Set in NEW YORK, New York, CASCADES HIGH SCHOOL is a tiny 9-12 campus, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1. It educates 135 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 80% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

CASCADES HIGH SCHOOL is one of 26 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1, a district that caters to 9,363 students overall.

Looking at the student body, CASCADES HIGH SCHOOL reports that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 39% Black, 4% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CASCADES HIGH SCHOOL has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CASCADES HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of +1.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for New York County put median household income runs about $103,931, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), CASCADES HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

FORSYTHE SATELLITE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CASCADES HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 38%: 217 students in 2018 compared to 135 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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