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Enrollment
393
High
DISTRICT 458 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WHITNEY POINT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363138004202
WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
10 KEIBEL RD, WHITNEY POINT, NY 13862 · (607) 692-8201 · Broome County
GRADES 09–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL393 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% 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.
- B+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
10.7:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
210 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 108 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 90 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 101 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 88 | 22% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 2% |
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · 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 WHITNEY POINT 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
72.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -8.0pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
68.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
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 WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (68.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 393 | 53.4% | 68.2% |
| JAMES A GREEN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DOLGEVILLE | 369 | 53.4% | 47.5% |
| CASSADAGA VALLEY MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL SINCLAIRVILLE | 382 | 56.3% | 43.6% |
| WAYLAND-COHOCTON HIGH SCHOOL WAYLAND | 382 | 50.5% | 76.7% |
| WATERLOO HIGH SCHOOL WATERLOO | 404 | 51.2% | 55.8% |
| BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BOLIVAR | 336 | 55.1% | 49.8% |
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 WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Broome County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #384 of 1,135 | #8 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #584 of 1,109 ▼ 23 | #8 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #553 of 1,135 ▼ 72 | #9 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 393 | #730 of 1,216 | #10 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #451 of 1,058 | #4 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.6% | #955 of 1,070 | #10 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.4% | #659 of 1,167 | #4 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #539 of 743 | #7 of 10 |
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
393
-18 (-4%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 361
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 393 | 36.8 | 10.7:1 | 53% (210) |
| 2023-24 | 379 | 38.4 | 9.9:1 | 56% (212) |
| 2022-23 | 402 | 39 | 10.3:1 | 55% (223) |
| 2020-21 | 411 | 37 | 11.1:1 | 56% (232) |
| 2017-18 | 423 | 38 | 11.1:1 | 54% (228) |
| 2015-16 | 465 | 36 | 12.9:1 | 51% (236) |
| 2010-11 | 438 | 42 | 10.4:1 | 37% (164) |
| 2000-01 | 651 | 55 | 11.8:1 | 25% (161) |
| 1990-91 | 361 | 34 | 10.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a small high school. Its address is in WHITNEY POINT, New York. The school's 393 students are in grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in New York average about 668 students each.
WHITNEY POINT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 3 schools and 1,374 students, WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL among them.
WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls a student body that is 93% White. It is also 3% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Broome County is roughly 80% White. The chance that two students picked at random at WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 14%.
At WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 36.8 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 10.7:1. High schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 11.0:1. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 53% of enrollment. Across public schools in Broome County, the average is about the same, 52%.
Measured against New York public high schools, WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is +12.8 points: 68.2% actual, 55.3% predicted.
Within Broome County, median household income is about $62,616, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Broome County number 52 and enroll about 24,594.
Nearby, CARYL E ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number 2. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 56.1%; WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's is 68.2%, ranking 2nd of 8.
The NCES locale for WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is Rural: Distant, which covers schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 4% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Broome County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,378
Census ACS
Median income
$62,616
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
24,594 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WHITNEY POINT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- TIOUGHNIOGA RIVERSIDE ACADEMYMiddle · 528 students
- CARYL E ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 453 students
Other schools in WHITNEY POINT
- TIOUGHNIOGA RIVERSIDE ACADEMYMiddle · 528 students
- CARYL E ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 453 students
Nearby schools
- CARYL E ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 453
- TIOUGHNIOGA RIVERSIDE ACADEMY0.5 mi · 528
- MARATHON HIGH SCHOOL7.7 mi · 295
- WILLIAM APPLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.7 mi · 378
- GREENE MIDDLE SCHOOL10.1 mi · 206
- GREENE HIGH SCHOOL10.1 mi · 273
Frequently asked questions
About WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 393 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
At WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 93% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by WHITNEY POINT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Broome County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.