Enrollment
230
High
DISTRICT 261 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SANDY CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362565003527
SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL
124 SALISBURY ST, SANDY CREEK, NY 13145 · (315) 387-3445 · Oswego County
GRADES 09–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL230 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of New York public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
11.6:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
108 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 56 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 60 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 63 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 45 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 3% |
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · 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 SANDY CREEK CENTRAL 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% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
73.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp 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 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.0% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 89.0% | 81.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
80.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New York's top 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 SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL
SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (80.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL this school | 230 | 47.0% | 80.2% |
| HARTFORD MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL HARTFORD | 212 | 46.2% | 66.0% |
| MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL MCGRAW | 234 | 47.9% | 63.5% |
| CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL CATTARAUGUS | 256 | 47.3% | 79.5% |
| CANAJOHARIE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CANAJOHARIE | 249 | 44.6% | 76.2% |
| NORTHVILLE HIGH SCHOOL NORTHVILLE | 239 | 45.6% | 57.5% |
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 SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oswego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #180 of 1,135 | #1 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #227 of 1,109 ▼ 21 | #1 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #223 of 1,135 ▲ 76 | #1 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 230 | #1,035 of 1,216 | #9 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #643 of 1,058 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.7% | #1,043 of 1,070 | #9 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.0% | #737 of 1,167 | #7 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.5% | #223 of 339 | N/A |
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
230
+27 (+13%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 565
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 230 | 19.8 | 11.6:1 | 47% (108) |
| 2023-24 | 233 | 19.5 | 12.0:1 | 47% (110) |
| 2022-23 | 213 | 22.3 | 9.6:1 | 50% (106) |
| 2020-21 | 203 | 19 | 10.7:1 | 46% (94) |
| 2017-18 | 220 | 17 | 12.9:1 | 49% (108) |
| 2015-16 | 251 | 16 | 15.7:1 | 56% (140) |
| 2010-11 | 322 | 24 | 13.4:1 | 50% (160) |
| 2000-01 | 594 | 49 | 12.1:1 | 43% (257) |
| 1990-91 | 565 | 36 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
About SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL
At 124 SALISBURY ST in SANDY CREEK, New York, SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL operates as a very small high school. It is open to students in grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 230 students. It has 66% fewer students than the average for high schools in New York (about 668).
SANDY CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT serves 784 students across 3 schools.
By race and ethnicity, SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is 97% White. The remaining shares are 3% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 7, compared with 70 nationally.
The school has 19.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.6 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The school reported 47% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Oswego County average a similar 49%.
On the allk12 Grade, SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 86% of New York public high schools.
BeatsExpectations places SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL in the top 10% of New York schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 22.4 points above it (80.2% actual, 57.7% predicted).
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Oswego County show that the median household earns about $69,183 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Oswego County has 37 public schools with about 17,529 students, including SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles are 3 other public schools. SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant.
In 2020-21, SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL enrolled 203 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 230.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Oswego County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
117,953
Census ACS
Median income
$69,183
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
17,529 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SANDY CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 379 students
- SANDY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 175 students
Other schools in SANDY CREEK
- SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 379 students
- SANDY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 175 students
Other Sandy Creek High schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sandy Creek High. SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Sandy Creek High SchoolTyrone, GA · 1,189 students
- SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOLFAIRFIELD, NE · 124 students
- SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOLFAIRFIELD, NE · 117 students
Nearby schools
- SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 379
- SANDY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 175
- MANNSVILLE MANOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.9 mi · 338
- PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.0 mi · 422
- PULASKI MIDDLE-HIGH SCHOOL7.0 mi · 507
- BELLEVILLE HENDERSON CENTRAL SCHOOL10.0 mi · 491
Frequently asked questions
About SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL?
SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 230 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL?
SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 97% White, 3% Hispanic.
What district is SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL in?
SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is part of SANDY CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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