The Port Byron Central School District is part of a small, rural community located in northern Cayuga County approximately 35 miles west of Syracuse, New York. Approximately 950 students populate the district's two buildings. The A.A. Gates Elementary School, which serves UPK-sixth grade students, and the Dana L. West Jr.-Sr. High School, (grades 7-12) are connected and sit on the same campus in the village of Port Byron.