CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is a micro-enrollment senior high in CATTARAUGUS, New York, overseen by CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 256 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL sits 62% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (809 students total), CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 57.6%; CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL posts 79.5%, +21.9 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cattaraugus County) records that median household income runs about $59,540, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Cattaraugus County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,228 students), CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 52.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 283 students in 2018 compared to 256 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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