PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Set in SOUTH DAYTON, New York, PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a tiny four-year high school, run under PINE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SOUTH DAYTON). It educates 199 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 70% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

PINE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SOUTH DAYTON) runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 518 students. PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Chautauqua County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.6:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Chautauqua County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.2%, the actual is 59.8%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Chautauqua County) records that median household income runs about $58,351, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Chautauqua County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students), of which PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 18%, going from 242 students in 2018 to 199 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 95% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 6.6:1 today.

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