Summary:
Otego-Unadilla Central School District has only one high school, Unatego Junior-Senior High School, which serves students in grades 7-12. The school has seen a decline in its statewide ranking and overall performance rating in recent years, dropping from 345 out of 1,190 New York high schools in 2021-2022 to 525 out of 1,242 in 2023-2024. While the school performs well above the state average in some subjects like Algebra II, English Language Arts, and Physics, it struggles in others like Algebra I, Earth Science, and Chemistry.
Unatego Junior-Senior High School's graduation rate of 84.3% is slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate of 4.9% is higher than the state average. Chronic absenteeism is also a concern, with 34.1% of students being chronically absent. The school serves a relatively high percentage of economically disadvantaged students, with 39.6% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch.
Despite the school's challenges, it has a relatively small class size, with a student-teacher ratio of 12:1, which is lower than the state average. The school's spending per student is $17,638, which is higher than the state average. The Otego-Unadilla Central School District and the school's leadership should closely examine the factors contributing to the school's declining performance and develop strategies to improve academic outcomes, address chronic absenteeism, and support the needs of its economically disadvantaged student population.
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