ODESSA-MONTOUR JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

ODESSA-MONTOUR JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the compact four-year high schools in ODESSA, New York, operated by ODESSA-MONTOUR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 284 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 57% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

ODESSA-MONTOUR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 673 students. ODESSA-MONTOUR JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ODESSA-MONTOUR JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ODESSA-MONTOUR JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ODESSA-MONTOUR JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 55.8%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Schuyler County put the typical household earns roughly $67,663 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ODESSA-MONTOUR JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 6 public schools in Schuyler County (combined enrollment of about 1,801 students).

HOWARD A HANLON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ODESSA-MONTOUR JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.6%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 339 students in 2018 compared to 284 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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