ORLEANS-NIAGARA BOCES

ORLEANS-NIAGARA BOCES is a middle-of-the-pack all-grades campus in MEDINA, New York, one of the schools within ORLEANS-NIAGARA BOCES. The school hosts 473 students in grades K through 12.

Operationally, ORLEANS-NIAGARA BOCES answers to ORLEANS-NIAGARA BOCES, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, ORLEANS-NIAGARA BOCES lists that White students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder comes out to 12% multiracial, 9% Black, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Orleans County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 172 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 2.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.7:1 average.

In the area at large, Orleans County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,969 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Orleans County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,767 students), of which ORLEANS-NIAGARA BOCES is one.

MEDINA JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORLEANS-NIAGARA BOCES has rose 3%, going from 459 students in 2018 to 473 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 80% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 2.8:1 in 2025.

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