PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Set in PALMYRA, New York, PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a cozy high school, one of the schools within PALMYRA-MACEDON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 513 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 668.

PALMYRA-MACEDON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,637 students; PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder breaks down as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.2%, the actual is 65.0%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,506 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 37 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 13,068 students).

PALMYRA-MACEDON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PALMYRA-MACEDON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 55.8%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 513 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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