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How has CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
394
High
DISTRICT 403 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CATSKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360672000459
CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
341 W MAIN ST, CATSKILL, NY 12414 · (518) 943-2300 · Greene County
GRADES 09–12HIGH31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL394 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New York public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
10.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
196 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 9 | 112 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 97 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 87 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 94 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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 CATSKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
80.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -31.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 31 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.0% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 85.0% | 82.0% |
% 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
73.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (73.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 394 | 49.7% | 73.8% |
| TRI-VALLEY SECONDARY SCHOOL GRAHAMSVILLE | 408 | 47.3% | 56.9% |
| TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CRARYVILLE | 471 | 55.6% | 47.4% |
| SIDNEY HIGH SCHOOL SIDNEY | 342 | 49.1% | 81.0% |
| NORTH ROSE-WOLCOTT HIGH SCHOOL WOLCOTT | 326 | 46.6% | 46.2% |
| WHEATLAND-CHILI HIGH SCHOOL SCOTTSVILLE | 369 | 52.0% | 43.8% |
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 CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.8% | #274 of 1,135 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #578 of 1,109 ▼ 390 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #422 of 1,135 ▼ 40 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 394 | #722 of 1,216 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #490 of 1,058 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.1% | #505 of 1,070 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.7% | #695 of 1,167 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.2% | #652 of 743 |
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
394
-16 (-4%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 546
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 394 | 36.3 | 10.8:1 | 50% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 373 | 37 | 10.1:1 | 40% (149) |
| 2022-23 | 400 | 37.9 | 10.6:1 | 38% (152) |
| 2020-21 | 410 | 36 | 11.4:1 | 52% (214) |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 35 | 11.6:1 | 40% (164) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 37 | 11.4:1 | 47% (198) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 34 | 16.5:1 | 30% (166) |
| 2000-01 | 512 | 39 | 13.1:1 | 28% (142) |
| 1990-91 | 546 | 43 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Students in CATSKILL, New York, attend CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a low-enrollment high school. The school has 394 students in 2024-25 across grades 9 through 12. High schools in New York have about 668 students on average; enrollment here is 41% lower.
CATSKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and 2 other schools, with 1,208 students in total.
More than half of the students at CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are White (69%). Other reported shares: 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 5% Black. That compares with about 85% White among all Greene County residents. The diversity index for CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 49%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 36.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.8:1. The average for high schools in New York is about 11.0:1. About 50% of students at CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public high schools, CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 73.8% and a predicted 56.7%.
In the wider Greene County area, the median household earns about $77,945 a year, about 30% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shares Greene County with 15 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, CATSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile from CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. The five-mile area around CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL holds 3 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 41.3% proficiency; CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL posts 73.8%.
Locale data from NCES put CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in a town close to an urbanized area (Town: Fringe).
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 4% decline, from 410 to 394.
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Greene County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,409
Census ACS
Median income
$77,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
5,042 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CATSKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 550 students
- CATSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 264 students
Other schools in CATSKILL
- CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 550 students
- CATSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 264 students
Nearby schools
- CATSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 264
- CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 550
- EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.0 mi · 177
- MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.3 mi · 689
- HUDSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL5.7 mi · 340
- HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL5.7 mi · 493
Frequently asked questions
About CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow large is CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 394 students in grades 09-12.
Is CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
What is the student diversity at CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 69% White, 15% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of CATSKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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