Enrollment
234
High
DISTRICT 268 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPENCER-VAN ETTEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362775003759
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL
16 DARTTS CROSSROAD, SPENCER, NY 14883 · (607) 589-7140 · Tioga County
GRADES 09–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL234 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New York public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
9.5:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
143 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 64 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 53 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 53 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 59 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 2% |
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · 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 SPENCER-VAN ETTEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
77.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
72.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 76.0% |
% 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
72.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% 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 20 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 SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (72.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL this school | 234 | 61.1% | 72.8% |
| HARPURSVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL HARPURSVILLE | 253 | 56.9% | 40.4% |
| MIDDLEBURGH JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIDDLEBURGH | 284 | 57.0% | 54.7% |
| AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AFTON | 219 | 56.6% | 43.6% |
| CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CANDOR | 306 | 65.4% | 46.4% |
| SOUTH LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL TURIN | 272 | 55.1% | 74.0% |
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 SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Tioga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #287 of 1,135 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #237 of 1,109 ▲ 46 | #4 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #475 of 1,135 ▲ 4 | #3 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 234 | #1,027 of 1,216 | #6 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.5:1 | #219 of 1,058 | #3 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.2% | #1,020 of 1,070 | #4 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.1% | #587 of 1,167 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.5% | #158 of 743 | 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
234
-50 (-18%) vs 2020
-55% since 1990-91, when it was 515
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
was 10.1:1
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 | 234 | 24.6 | 9.5:1 | 61% (143) |
| 2023-24 | 241 | 23.5 | 10.3:1 | 57% (137) |
| 2022-23 | 241 | 25.5 | 9.4:1 | 58% (140) |
| 2020-21 | 284 | 28 | 10.1:1 | 53% (150) |
| 2017-18 | 298 | 23 | 12.9:1 | 53% (157) |
| 2015-16 | 259 | 22 | 11.8:1 | 41% (107) |
| 2010-11 | 351 | 21 | 16.7:1 | 39% (136) |
| 2000-01 | 584 | 42 | 13.9:1 | 33% (194) |
| 1990-91 | 515 | 37 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL.
About SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL is a public small high school in SPENCER, New York. It educates 234 students in grades 9 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in New York is about 668 students.
In SPENCER-VAN ETTEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, 3 schools enroll a combined 803 students.
White students are the large majority at SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL, with 95% of enrollment. The county population is about 94% White, within a few points of the school. By the diversity index, SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL comes in at 9%.
At SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL, 24.6 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 9.5:1. That ratio is under the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 61% of enrollment. Compared with the 53% average for public schools in Tioga County, the school's rate is higher.
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 78% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL is a top-10% school in New York on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests of 52.5% with an actual 72.8%.
County data help place the school in context: in Tioga County, median household income is about $72,739, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL is among the 21 public schools in Tioga County.
The school nearest to SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL is SPENCER-VAN ETTEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, at a distance of about 1.5 miles. Within five miles of SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL, there are 2 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 46.8%; SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL's is 72.8%, ranking 1st of 9.
The school's locale code, Rural: Distant, means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 18% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Tioga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,864
Census ACS
Median income
$72,739
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
7,112 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SPENCER-VAN ETTEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SPENCER-VAN ETTEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 333 students
- SPENCER-VAN ETTEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 236 students
Nearby schools
- SPENCER-VAN ETTEN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 236
- SPENCER-VAN ETTEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 333
- CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL9.6 mi · 306
- CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.6 mi · 401
- NEWFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL11.3 mi · 318
- NEWFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL11.3 mi · 178
Frequently asked questions
About SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL?
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 234 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.5:1 students per teacher at SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL?
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 95% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL in?
SPENCER-VAN ETTEN HIGH SCHOOL is part of SPENCER-VAN ETTEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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