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How has PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
743
High
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362352003286
PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
10 RT 209, PORT JERVIS, NY 12771 · (845) 858-3100 · Orange County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL743 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% of New York public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
413 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 184 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 185 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 167 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 199 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 1% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
89.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 52.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
63.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (63.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 743 | 55.6% | 63.5% |
| NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NEWARK | 586 | 53.8% | 52.7% |
| ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 972 | 49.3% | 54.2% |
| EASTRIDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 888 | 58.4% | 57.8% |
| BATAVIA HIGH SCHOOL BATAVIA | 646 | 50.8% | 53.5% |
| OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 1,090 | 56.2% | 37.2% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #476 of 1,135 | #10 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #616 of 1,109 ▼ 2 | #12 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #220 of 1,135 ▲ 232 | #5 of 14 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 743 | #339 of 1,216 | #11 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #676 of 1,058 | #4 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.1% | #268 of 1,070 | #7 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.6% | #638 of 1,167 | #2 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #671 of 743 | #8 of 10 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
743
-27 (-4%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 830
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 12.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 743 | 62.6 | 11.9:1 | 56% (413) |
| 2023-24 | 734 | 69.9 | 10.5:1 | 53% (389) |
| 2022-23 | 750 | 64.9 | 11.6:1 | 55% (415) |
| 2020-21 | 770 | 62 | 12.4:1 | 52% (400) |
| 2017-18 | 762 | 67 | 11.4:1 | 53% (406) |
| 2015-16 | 827 | 67 | 12.3:1 | 58% (477) |
| 2010-11 | 998 | 74 | 13.5:1 | 54% (534) |
| 2000-01 | 1,000 | 65 | 15.4:1 | 24% (241) |
| 1990-91 | 830 | 60 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the public schools in PORT JERVIS, New York. It is a medium-sized high school. Enrollment is 743 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 9 through 12.
PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the 4 schools that make up PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,302 students in total).
White students make up a majority at PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, at 57%. The remaining shares are 25% Hispanic, 16% Black, and 2% Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 59% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates with 62.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 11.9:1. On average, high schools in New York have 11.0:1, compared with 11.9:1 here. PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports 56% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 44% average for public schools in Orange County is 12 points.
Measured against New York public high schools, PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 54.5% for PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. The school posts 63.5%, 8.9 points above the prediction.
Census Bureau estimates for Orange County show that the median household income is $97,178, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 82 public schools in the county.
The nearest public school is PORT JERVIS MIDDLE SCHOOL, at less than a tenth of a mile. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 5 other public schools. PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is in rural territory close to an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Fringe).
The school enrolled 743 students in 2024-25, 27 fewer than the 770 it had in 2020-21.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 702 students
- PORT JERVIS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 549 students
- N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOLElementary · 308 students
Other schools in PORT JERVIS
- EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 702 students
- PORT JERVIS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 549 students
Nearby schools
- PORT JERVIS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 549
- EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 702
- Delaware Valley Elementary School1.6 mi · 486
- Delaware Valley Middle School4.1 mi · 466
- Delaware Valley High School4.1 mi · 1,380
- N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL6.6 mi · 308
Frequently asked questions
About PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 743 students in grades 09-12.
Is PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 11.9:1 (63 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 57% White, 25% Hispanic, 16% Black, 2% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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