BALLSTON SPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

BALLSTON SPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a sprawling 9-12 campus in BALLSTON SPA, New York, part of BALLSTON SPA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 1,300 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 95% above the state mean of about 668.

BALLSTON SPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by BALLSTON SPA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 3,826 students overall.

On demographics, BALLSTON SPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school logs 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BALLSTON SPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, BALLSTON SPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of +7.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Saratoga County indicate median household earnings sit near $100,787, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Saratoga County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students), of which BALLSTON SPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is BALLSTON SPA MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BALLSTON SPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 64.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. BALLSTON SPA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 1,288 (now 1,300). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 94% to 84%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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