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Enrollment
602
High
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GENEVA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361197000964
GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL
101 CARTER RD, GENEVA, NY 14456 · (315) 781-0402 · Ontario County
GRADES 09–12HIGH32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL602 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
10.1:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
374 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 9 | 154 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 149 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 134 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 151 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 14 | 2% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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 GENEVA 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
60.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -11.0pp since 2023
Math
24.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 38.0% |
% 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
45.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL
GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (45.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL this school | 602 | 62.1% | 45.7% |
| ELLENVILLE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ELLENVILLE | 698 | 58.6% | 42.0% |
| MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOL MONTICELLO | 833 | 63.7% | 42.5% |
| URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL NEW YORK | 518 | 62.4% | 50.7% |
| SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL SODUS | 472 | 64.0% | 48.7% |
| DOVER HIGH SCHOOL DOVER PLAINS | 462 | 59.5% | 69.3% |
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 GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Ontario County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #812 of 1,135 | #9 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #969 of 1,109 ▼ 185 | #9 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #792 of 1,135 ▼ 164 | #8 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 602 | #439 of 1,216 | #4 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #332 of 1,058 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #98 of 1,070 | #1 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.1% | #581 of 1,167 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #477 of 743 | #6 of 8 |
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
602
+14 (+2%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 620
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 602 | 59.5 | 10.1:1 | 62% (374) |
| 2023-24 | 601 | 61.7 | 9.7:1 | 59% (354) |
| 2022-23 | 613 | 54.8 | 11.2:1 | 63% (385) |
| 2020-21 | 588 | 56 | 10.5:1 | 56% (328) |
| 2017-18 | 659 | 61 | 10.8:1 | 59% (387) |
| 2015-16 | 708 | 56 | 12.6:1 | 59% (420) |
| 2010-11 | 758 | 56 | 13.5:1 | 50% (379) |
| 2000-01 | 770 | 58 | 13.3:1 | 21% (158) |
| 1990-91 | 620 | 40 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL.
About GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL
GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL is a mid-sized high school based in GENEVA, New York. Federal data show 602 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25.
The district, GENEVA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, has 1,963 students enrolled across 4 schools.
The biggest share of students at GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL, 40%, is White. Next come 34% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 12% Black. That compares with about 89% White among all Ontario County residents. A diversity index of 70% means there is a 70% chance two randomly chosen students at GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
Its ratio of 10.1:1 is based on 59.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. High schools in New York have an average ratio of 11.0:1. In all, 62% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Ontario County average 41%.
On the allk12 Grade, GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 23% of New York public high schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 52.1% for GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL. The school posts 45.7%, 6.5 points below the prediction.
For Ontario County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $82,324 a year, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Ontario County number 27, with about 14,114 students.
Measured in a straight line, GENEVA MIDDLE SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile from GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL. Within five miles are 3 other public schools. On proficiency, GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL is ahead of the 42.4% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 7.
In the federal locale system, GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL is coded Town: Distant, for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The school's size has been steady, with 588 students in 2020-21 and 602 in 2024-25.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Ontario County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
112,625
Census ACS
Median income
$82,324
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
27
14,114 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GENEVA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
- GENEVA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 442 students
- WEST STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 421 students
Other schools in GENEVA
- NORTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
- GENEVA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 442 students
- WEST STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 421 students
Other Geneva High schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Geneva High. GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Geneva High SchoolGeneva, OH · 656 students
- Geneva High SchoolGeneva, AL · 369 students
Nearby schools
- GENEVA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 442
- NORTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 498
- WEST STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 421
- WATERLOO MIDDLE SCHOOL6.6 mi · 356
- WATERLOO HIGH SCHOOL6.6 mi · 404
- SKOI-YASE SCHOOL6.7 mi · 345
Frequently asked questions
About GENEVA HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL?
GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 602 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL serve?
GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL have?
GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL employs 60 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1.
What is the student diversity at GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 40% White, 34% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL?
GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by GENEVA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Ontario County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.