THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL

THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL operates as a micro-enrollment senior high in CLAYTON, New York, run under THOUSAND ISLANDS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 262 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 61% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

THOUSAND ISLANDS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 799 students. THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Jefferson County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 61.1%; THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL posts 86.7%, +25.6 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Jefferson County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,301 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL is one of 39 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 16,789 students).

The closest other public school is THOUSAND ISLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 59.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 305 (now 262).

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