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CATO-MERIDIAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Cato, New York · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

859
Students enrolled
2
Public schools
75
Classroom teachers (FTE)
11.5:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 35
  • Kindergarten 59
  • Grade 1 53
  • Grade 2 68
  • Grade 3 61
  • Grade 4 68
  • Grade 5 58
  • Grade 6 62
  • Grade 7 77
  • Grade 8 64
  • Grade 9 63
  • Grade 10 62
  • Grade 11 57
  • Grade 12 66
  • Ungraded 6

By race/ethnicity

  • White 93%
  • Two or more races 4%
  • Hispanic/Latino 2%
  • Black or African American 1%
  • Asian <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

43% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 360 of 846 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 40%
  • Reduced-price lunch 3%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$23,310 spent per student on day-to-day operations New York median: $27,061 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $14,707
  • Support services $8,033
  • Other (food service, etc.) $569

Where the money comes from

  • Local 26%
  • State 66%
  • Federal 7%

Total revenue $26.7 milliontotal spending $23.8 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year. Some figures for this district are NCES estimates.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Distant

Total staff (FTE)

158

District office

2851 STATE RTE 370, Cato NY 13033

County

Cayuga County

Official website

NCES District ID

3606690

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About CATO-MERIDIAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Our mission is to encourage growth of individual talent, confidence, and pride in an environment where each person can develop skills and attitudes to become a responsible, understanding, and productive member of a changing society.
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