CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL

CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL, an average-sized senior high in CORTLAND, New York, run under CORTLAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 582 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Across the 5 schools in CORTLAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,836 students total), CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Beyond that, the school shows 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL lists 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Cortland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,418 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cortland County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,381 students), CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CORTLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 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. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.0%.

CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 19%, going from 720 students in 2018 to 582 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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