LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL

As a low-enrollment high school in LITTLE FALLS, New York, LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL serves 331 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within LITTLE FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL sits 50% smaller than that benchmark.

LITTLE FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,005 students; LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Herkimer County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Herkimer County indicate median household income runs about $68,515, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL is one of 25 public schools in Herkimer County (combined enrollment of about 9,619 students).

LITTLE FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 324 students in 2018 compared to 331 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 97% to 90% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.