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MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL
MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the low-enrollment secondary schools in MAYFIELD, New York, operated by MAYFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 379 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 2 schools in MAYFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (809 students total), MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL records that nearly all students (91%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 29% of students at MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.2%; this one delivers 62.3%.
In the broader community, Fulton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,533 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Fulton County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,173 students), MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL has fell 11%, going from 428 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 96% to 91% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.
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