PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Set in PORT JERVIS, New York, PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a moderately sized senior high, operated by PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 743 students across grades 9 through 12.

PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,302 students. PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 16% Black, 2% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.5%, the actual is 63.5%, a residual of +8.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,178, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 82 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students).

The closest other public school is PORT JERVIS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 55.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has held roughly steady, going from 762 students in 2018 to 743 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 57% across the same window.

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