PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a small high school in PORTVILLE, New York, one of the schools within PORTVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 445 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 33% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within PORTVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 979 students, PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (92%) are White. Other groups include 6% multiracial. Compared to Cattaraugus County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR 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 68.5%.

In the area at large, census data for Cattaraugus County shows median household income runs about $59,540, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 31 public schools in Cattaraugus County (combined enrollment of about 11,228 students).

PORTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PORTVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 450 students in 2018 to 445 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 96% to 92% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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