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CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 62% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL
Located at 150 W GENESEE ST, in CHITTENANGO, New York, CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL is an average-sized senior high that enrolls 592 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by CHITTENANGO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Across the 4 schools in CHITTENANGO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,893 students total), CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL records that nearly all students (90%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 36% 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), CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 61.6%; this one delivers 83.2%, a residual of +21.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Madison County put median household income runs about $75,499, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Madison County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,402 students), of which CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL is one.
BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 70.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 645 students in 2018 compared to 592 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.
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