ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a senior high of modestly sized scale in ONEONTA, New York, part of ONEONTA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 499 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Across the 5 schools in ONEONTA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,679 students total), ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest consists of 8% Black, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

On the resource side, On paper, ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 61.7%; ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL posts 82.8%, +21.1 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Otsego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,885 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Otsego County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,216 students), ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ONEONTA MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. ONEONTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 506 (now 499). The White share of enrollment fell from 81% to 76% over that span.

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