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Which teacher or staff member at ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
1,273
High
DISTRICT 826 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361056000824
ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL
777 S MAIN ST, ELMIRA, NY 14904 · (607) 735-3201 · Chemung County
GRADES 10–12HIGH23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,273 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of New York public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
22.4:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
856 students
DISTRICT 73% · 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 10 | 412 | 32% |
| Grade 11 | 427 | 34% |
| Grade 12 | 432 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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 ELMIRA CITY 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
64.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -12.0pp since 2023
Math
19.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 24.0% |
% 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
40.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL
ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (40.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,273 | 67.2% | 40.7% |
| LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 1,377 | 62.3% | 69.2% |
| WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WATERTOWN | 1,181 | 62.0% | 59.3% |
| AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL AUBURN | 1,176 | 56.0% | 65.2% |
| GLOVERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL GLOVERSVILLE | 669 | 71.6% | 42.5% |
| COHOES HIGH SCHOOL COHOES | 607 | 68.5% | 48.3% |
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 ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.7% | #927 of 1,135 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #1,021 of 1,109 ▼ 55 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #709 of 1,135 ▼ 165 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,273 | #152 of 1,216 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.4:1 | #1,055 of 1,058 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.0% | #510 of 1,070 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.2% | #550 of 1,167 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.7% | #700 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
1,273
+14 (+1%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 1,176
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
was 17.7:1
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 | 1,273 | 56.9 | 22.4:1 | 67% (856) |
| 2023-24 | 1,255 | 60.7 | 20.7:1 | 60% (751) |
| 2022-23 | 1,249 | 66.4 | 18.8:1 | 63% (791) |
| 2020-21 | 1,259 | 71 | 17.7:1 | 54% (681) |
| 2017-18 | 1,295 | 75.9 | 17.1:1 | 55% (715) |
| 2015-16 | 1,324 | 74 | 17.9:1 | 53% (697) |
| 2010-11 | 1,118 | 71 | 15.8:1 | 45% (499) |
| 2000-01 | 1,197 | 80 | 15.0:1 | 24% (291) |
| 1990-91 | 1,176 | 74 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL.
About ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL
ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a high school in ELMIRA, New York. Students in grades 10 through 12 attend the school, which enrolls 1,273 students. The average among high schools in New York is roughly 668 students; this school is 91% larger than that.
ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (11 schools, 5,322 students) runs ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL.
At ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL, White students make up 69% of the student body. The remaining shares are 13% multiracial, 13% Black, and 4% Hispanic. Chemung County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school's share is lower. ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL's diversity index is 49%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at the school number 56.9 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 22.4:1. This ratio sits 11.4 above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Roughly 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 56% for public schools in Chemung County.
ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL is graded D by allk12, scoring above 13% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In New York, ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 40.7% actual against a predicted 50.3%.
Among Chemung County residents, the median household income is $63,716, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Besides ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL, Chemung County has 23 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL is 3rd of 7 on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Small, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 1,273, close to the 1,259 recorded in 2020-21. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 17.7:1 to 22.4:1.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Chemung County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
82,147
Census ACS
Median income
$63,716
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,788 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMYMiddle · 844 students
- HENDY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- PARLEY COBURN SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- BROADWAY ACADEMYHigh · 379 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 375 students
- BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 364 students
Other schools in ELMIRA
- ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMYMiddle · 844 students
- FINN ACADEMY: AN ELMIRA CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 411 students
- HENDY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- PARLEY COBURN SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- BROADWAY ACADEMYHigh · 379 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 375 students
Other Elmira High schools
One other US public school is named Elmira High. ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Elmira High SchoolElmira, OR · 374 students
Nearby schools
- PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL0.9 mi · 391
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 375
- BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 364
- BROADWAY ACADEMY1.2 mi · 379
- ELMIRA PSYCHIATRIC CENTER1.5 mi · 4
- THOMAS K BEECHER SCHOOL1.8 mi · 338
Frequently asked questions
About ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL?
ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,273 students in grades 10-12.
Is ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 10-12.
How many students per teacher at ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 22.4:1 students per teacher at ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL?
ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 69% White, 4% Hispanic, 13% Black, 0% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL?
ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Chemung County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.