OXFORD ACADEMY 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 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 47 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About OXFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL
Located at 50 S WASHINGTON AVE, in OXFORD, New York, OXFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is an one-room-style secondary school that works with 205 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within OXFORD ACADEMY AND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 69% smaller than typical.
Across the 3 schools in OXFORD ACADEMY AND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (696 students total), OXFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, OXFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, OXFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, OXFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.2%; this one delivers 69.5%.
Zooming out to the county, Chenango County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,948 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Chenango County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,036 students), of which OXFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: OXFORD ACADEMY PRIMARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OXFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 223 students in 2018 compared to 205 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 90% to 95% over that span.
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