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WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL
Located at 6000 NY-291, in MARCY, New York, WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL is a moderately sized 9-12 campus that hosts 914 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within WHITESBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL sits 37% larger than that benchmark.
WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL is one of 7 schools operated by WHITESBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 2,898 students overall.
Looking at the student body, WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.
On the resource side, On paper, WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL has 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Oneida County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.0%, the actual is 80.0%, a residual of +15.0 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Oneida County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,154 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oneida County runs 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), of which WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is MARCY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.0%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Over the past 7-year window. WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 993 (now 914). Over the same period, the White share fell from 93% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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