# CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360669000455`
- **School name**: CATO-MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: CATO, NY 13033
- **Address**: 2851 STATE RTE 370
- **District**: CATO-MERIDIAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3606690`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 43.17099, -76.54748
- **Phone**: (315)626-3439

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 383
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 42.6%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 80)
- **2019**: 97.0% (cohort of 63)
- **2018**: 92.0% (cohort of 72)
- **2017**: 92.0% (cohort of 71)
- **2016**: 97.0% (cohort of 67)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 11

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.1% (88 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.3% (61 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 15
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 90.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 44.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.9% — 22 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,353,409
- **Federal share**: 12.1%
- **State share**: 63.8%
- **Local share**: 24.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,962,500

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,056
- **Poverty rate**: 8.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,352
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (BRILLO LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.87 miles (MORGAN ROAD PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CATO VILLAGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOL** — 10.8 mi away, 94% (this school: 92%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cato-meridian-junior-senior-high-school-cato/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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