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The numbers shown below are the result of my own curiosity ... They have absolutely NO official application or function ... The numbers are presented for informational purposes only. As background, New York State high school athletics is under the jurisdiction of the New York State Education Department ... the NYS Education Department charters membership into the New York State Federation of Secondary School Athletic Associations ... currently, there are four members of the NYS Federation: (1) NYSPHSAA (NY State Public High School
Athletic Association) The NYSPHSAA is composed of public, parochial and private schools from around the entire State (with the exception of various regions of NY City) ... The NYSPHSAA is by far the largest member of the Federation in terms of school numbers. The PSAL web-site has a list of 198 PSAL schools in NYC ... at the PSAL Cross Country Championships held at Van Cortlandt Park (Nov 12, 2005), runners from 61 PSAL schools competed (including both teams and individuals). The NYSAIS lists 108 secondary schools (nysais.org) ... at the NYSAIS Cross Country Championships held at Tibbitts Brook Park (Nov 12, 2005), runners from 21 schools competed. I do not have exact numbers for the CHSAA ... I believe the largest segment of the CHSAA is the Archdiocese of New York and the Brooklyn-Queens Diocese - they have 30+ secondary schools (nychsaa.org) ... at the CHSAA Cross Country Championships held at Van Cortlandt Park (Nov 12, 2005), runners from 38 CHSAA schools competed (including both teams and individuals) ... I also believe about a dozen CHSAA schools from the western NY area should be added to this total (a guess on my part). In 2005, the NYSPHSAA lists 770 schools state-wide with high school enrollment numbers (nysphsaa.org) ... The NYSPHSAA enrollment numbers for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 are listed on this web-site. The NYSPHSAA schools are divided into eleven geographical regions state-wide ... they are further divided into five classes by school enrollment numbers (classes AA, A, B, C and D) ... The NYSPHSAA conducts their own cross country championship which the member schools commonly refer to as the "NY State Championship Meet" ... In actuality, this meet is really the "NYSPHSAA State Class Championship" since there five separate races by class ... The NY Federation Championship Meet is held the following week and includes the other NY Federation members (CHSAA, AIS, PSAL) in one boy's and one girl's championship races. The NYSPHSAA championship process begins with the eleven sectional championship meets (the winning team in each class in each section plus five individual runners per class advance to the NYSPHSAA Championship Meet) ... I was curious as to "How many schools per section and class were involved in this process??". To answer this question, I took results from all eleven sectional championships and counted the number of schools per class that had runners competing at sectionals (this included both full teams and incomplete teams) ... The one exception was Section 8 because they have qualifiers for their sectional championship meet, so I used the results from the Section 8 qualifiers (rather than the sectional championship meet). I realize this process excludes a few high schools that have cross country teams IF they fail to compete at the sectional championships ... for example, Section 3 commonly has a few teams that choose not the compete at sectionals ... I see NO reason they should be counted for anything if they are not willing (or unable) to compete in this championship meet - The classes are designed specifically for the sectional championships and State Class Meet (that's their purpose). Here are the number of schools per section and class that competed in the 2005 NYSPHSAA sectional championships:
A total of 533 NYSPHSAA schools took part in the 2005 sectional championships ... since there were 770 member schools state-wide, 69.2% of possible schools competed (that was higher than I expected). The breakdown by class was a bit surprising - More Class AA schools competed than any other class ... that surprised me because two sections do not have Class AA schools ... The number of schools state-wide per class was a little unbalanced, but not badly. Just for the fun of it, I took the 533 schools and applied the 2006-2007 enrollment numbers to project some theoretical class divisions (to divide the five classes more evenly based on actual participation) ... Remember - this has NO official standing what-so-ever.
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