GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 400 PERU RD, in GROTON, New York, GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a compact high school that works with 396 students (grades 6 through 12), one of the schools within GROTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

GROTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 784 students; GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that nearly all students (90%) are White. Other groups include 5% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at school resources, GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 47% of students at GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tompkins County (around 36%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.3%.

Around the school, census data for Tompkins County shows median household earnings sit near $74,024, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 33 public schools in Tompkins County (combined enrollment of about 10,392 students).

GROTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GROTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 10%: 441 students in 2018 compared to 396 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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