MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL

MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL operates as an one-room-style senior high in MCGRAW, New York, overseen by MCGRAW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 234 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 65% leaner than typical.

MCGRAW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 498 students. MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.4%; this one delivers 63.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cortland County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $70,418 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL is one of 17 public schools in Cortland County (combined enrollment of about 5,381 students).

MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 48.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 279 students in 2018 compared to 234 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 in 2025.

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