DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL

DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of one-room-style scale in DERUYTER, New York, run under DERUYTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 187 students in grades 5 through 12. That puts it 72% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

DERUYTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 306 students; DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Madison County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 45% of students at DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.3%, the actual is 48.2%, a residual of -10.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Madison County shows median household income runs about $75,499, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL is one of 25 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 8,402 students).

DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.2%.

DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL has showed little movement, going from 189 students in 2018 to 187 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 6.4:1 in 2025.

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