Enrollment
383
High
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CATO-MERIDIAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360669000455
CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
2851 STATE RTE 370, CATO, NY 13033 · (315) 626-3439 · Cayuga County
GRADES 07–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL383 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 33% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
163 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 77 | 20% |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 9 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 10 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 11 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 12 | 66 | 17% |
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within CATO-MERIDIAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
59.2%
NY avg 58.3% . -10.3pp since 2023
Math
49.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -13.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.2% | 49.8% |
| 2023-24 | 69.5% | 62.9% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (54.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 383 | 42.6% | 54.7% |
| CHAUTAUQUA LAKE SECONDARY SCHOOL MAYVILLE | 372 | 43.0% | 73.8% |
| RANDOLPH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL RANDOLPH | 388 | 42.3% | 72.0% |
| SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SHERBURNE | 382 | 43.5% | 67.7% |
| OAKFIELD-ALABAMA MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL OAKFIELD | 360 | 41.1% | 67.8% |
| WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL WATKINS GLEN | 419 | 42.2% | 55.3% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Cayuga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #653 of 1,135 | #6 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.8% | #607 of 1,109 ▼ 136 | #5 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.2% | #798 of 1,135 ▼ 149 | #6 of 7 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 383 | #756 of 1,216 | #3 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #533 of 1,058 | #5 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.4% | #961 of 1,070 | #5 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.6% | #812 of 1,167 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +29.8% | #50 of 339 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
383
-16 (-4%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 425
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 10.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 383 | 34.6 | 11.1:1 | 43% (163) |
| 2023-24 | 374 | 35.2 | 10.6:1 | 45% (168) |
| 2022-23 | 378 | 32.3 | 11.7:1 | 47% (176) |
| 2020-21 | 399 | 38 | 10.5:1 | 40% (158) |
| 2017-18 | 295 | 24.5 | 12.0:1 | 40% (118) |
| 2015-16 | 297 | 24 | 12.4:1 | 36% (108) |
| 2010-11 | 338 | 29 | 11.7:1 | 29% (97) |
| 2000-01 | 481 | 35 | 13.7:1 | 22% (107) |
| 1990-91 | 425 | 34 | 12.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a low-enrollment high school in New York, located in CATO. Classes run from 7 through 12, and the school has 383 students. Against the 668-student average for high schools in New York, enrollment here is 43% lower.
CATO-MERIDIAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and 1 other school, with 846 students in total.
White students are the large majority at CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, with 93% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 4% multiracial and 2% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 13%.
A ratio of 11.1:1 comes from the school's 34.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. High schools in New York average about 11.0:1, a similar figure. The lunch program counts 43% of students at CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
The allk12 Grade for CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is C. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 33% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the prediction is 59.3% and the result is 54.7%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cayuga County show that median household income is about $67,904, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 22 public schools in Cayuga County, with a combined enrollment of about 8,576.
CATO-MERIDIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located about 0.3 miles from CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Within ten miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is Rural: Distant, which covers schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 4% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Cayuga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
75,102
Census ACS
Median income
$67,904
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
8,576 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CATO-MERIDIAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CATO-MERIDIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 463 students
Nearby schools
- CATO-MERIDIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 463
- JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL8.1 mi · 409
- WEEDSPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.3 mi · 324
- WEEDSPORT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL8.4 mi · 374
- JORDAN-ELBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL9.4 mi · 336
- A A GATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.6 mi · 447
Frequently asked questions
About CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 383 students in grades 07-12.
What age range does CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 07 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.1:1 students per teacher at CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 93% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by CATO-MERIDIAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.