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SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL
Set in SODUS, New York, SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL is a modestly sized secondary school, operated by SODUS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 472 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 668.
SODUS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,031 students; SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
In terms of who attends, SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 28% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wayne County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.5%; this one delivers 48.7%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,506 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 37 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 13,068 students).
Nearest neighbor: SODUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.4%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SODUS JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 470 students in 2018 to 472 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 28% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.
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Wayne County at a glance
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