ALDEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

ALDEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a compact high school in ALDEN, New York, run under ALDEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 488 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 27% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within ALDEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,474 students, ALDEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, ALDEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (95%) are White. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Erie County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALDEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 83.2%, a residual of +17.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which ALDEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ALDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around ALDEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALDEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 63.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALDEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 12%, going from 552 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025.

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